"With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

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"I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work."

Work

"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."

Hobbies

"Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them."

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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."

Problems

"I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel."

People

"The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm."

Hope

"People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week."

People