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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.

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Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack...

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the...

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be...

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and...

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana,...

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

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