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Art is the triumph over chaos.

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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 27th, 1912

Died: June 18th, 1982

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