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When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.

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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

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What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

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I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

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I look eight years older than everybody.

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Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

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The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

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I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 11th, 1930

Died: May 31st, 1995

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