"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."

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"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."

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"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

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"Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy."

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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

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"I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares."

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"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."

Life

"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."

Care

"When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while."

Preparation

"I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges."

Work

"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

Sympathy

"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."

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"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."

Movies

"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."

Nature

"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."

People

"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."

Trust