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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

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The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

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I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

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I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

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I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

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I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 12th, 1949

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