When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not...
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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? I...
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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel i...
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I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
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It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, ...
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Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
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It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of t...
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
