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"Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."
"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."
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"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
"I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around."
"While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story."
"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth."
"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
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