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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

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When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

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In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

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It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.

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Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

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A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look.

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A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

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Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

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New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

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My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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