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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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Fear and hope are alike underneath.

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

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Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

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There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

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I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

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I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

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My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

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Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 16th, 1944

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