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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

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Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school...

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the...

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

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