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I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.
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New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
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Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
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I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
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If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
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I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.
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My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
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Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
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Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
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If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
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Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
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There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.
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When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
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When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.
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A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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