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When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

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Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

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As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

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I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

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Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

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No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

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If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 16th, 1938

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