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"It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."
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"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
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"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another."
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"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."
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"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."
Life
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
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"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
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"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
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