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I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

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I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.

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My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

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My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

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Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.

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I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

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'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

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If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1949

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