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I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.

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I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

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When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

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I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

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I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.

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My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

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A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

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I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.

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To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

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I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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