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Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

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Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

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Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

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I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

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I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

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When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

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Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

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I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

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I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 16th, 1938

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