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I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.

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I liked Hemingway better before I began to be called 'Hemingwayesque.'

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I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or where that came from, but I was so excited to be there.

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I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

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I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That's not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn't been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I'm not overwhelmed by regret.

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You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

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Anglers who see fish exceptionally well can fish successfully in less productive water than anglers who don't. Fishermen love equipment and are always looking for mechanical advantages, but there is nothing to compare with learning to see well; if you see well enough, you can walk out in the mud with no boat and catch fish.

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Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

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I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis - people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life.

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I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 11th, 1939

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