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I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

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I have never liked haircuts.

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Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

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Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

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An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

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My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

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I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

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Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

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Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

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My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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