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Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

Half my life is an act of revision.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

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