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Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

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I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

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I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

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Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

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Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

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Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

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There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

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I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

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My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.

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Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 19th, 1955

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