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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.

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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

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Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 2nd, 1948

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