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As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and also makes them meaningful to other people.

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When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

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If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

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Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people want to have, is to keep publishing alive.

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Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

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It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 1st, 1945

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