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I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

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While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

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There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

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With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

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I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

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I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

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We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 19th, 1955

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