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Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

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That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?

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I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

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Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

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Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

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Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

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As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

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My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

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Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

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I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 23rd, 1956

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