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Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.

~John Updike

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My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.

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The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

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I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

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I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

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I think books should have secrets, like people do.

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My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

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Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

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Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

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In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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