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Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.

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You never see a teaser for a film on television that doesn't have someone running around a corner with a gun. Have you noticed that?... I think Hollywood has as much responsibility for gun violence as the National Rifle Association.

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I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

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I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.

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I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.

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I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.

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I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

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Summertime in Montana, I become a monosyllabic baboon. I want to ride with the cowboys, go to brandings, doctor cattle, and train my horses. But in a few months, the snow starts to fly. The days become shorter; the yellow color of interior light becomes delicious. I look at my shelves, and every book just glows, and I want to be inside of that.

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I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.

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I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 11th, 1939

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