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Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

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It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But...

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child...

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

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