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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

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I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

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I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

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The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

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I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

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Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

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E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 7th, 1957

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