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Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

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Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

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With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

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All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

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Nothing keeps its promise.

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Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

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For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.

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I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 19th, 1933

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