"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

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"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."

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"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last."

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"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."

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"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."

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"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."

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"Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate."

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"It's funny to be a critic."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

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"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

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