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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

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I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

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You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 2nd, 1942

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