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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

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Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

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When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 19th, 1945

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