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I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

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I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 6th, 1952

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