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A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

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The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

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After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

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As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

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As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

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A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

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Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 16th, 1938

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