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Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

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When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

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The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

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For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.

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A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

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When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

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In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

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I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

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It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

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I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 25th, 1938

Died: August 2nd, 1988

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