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Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

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A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

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I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

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I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

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I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

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I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 16th, 1928

Died: December 9th, 2005

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