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How dull it is to have people defining you.

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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

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The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

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The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.

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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 22nd, 1947

Died: February 24th, 2006

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