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Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

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A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

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If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

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Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

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Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

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To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

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I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

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Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

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My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

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I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 16th, 1938

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