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Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

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Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

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I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

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I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'

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When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

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I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

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I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

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I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

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Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 13th, 1957

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