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I am happy being what I am.

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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

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Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

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I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 10th, 1941

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