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When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

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When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.

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I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

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I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.

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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

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Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

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The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

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I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

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It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.

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Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 26th, 1943

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