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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

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Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

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Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

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Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

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Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

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I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 15th, 1949

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