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If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

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My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

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I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

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My parents were Belfast Catholics.

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When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.

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In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'

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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

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Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.

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Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1935

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