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"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

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"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend."

"I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that."

"Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be."

"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps."

"Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints."

"There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why."
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