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"I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair."
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"I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking."

"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."

"One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen."
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"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."


"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't."


"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."


"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."


"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."


"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."


"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."


"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."
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