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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

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Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 3rd, 1947

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