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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
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"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
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"I don't read fiction at all."
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"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
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"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form."
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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."
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"I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
Family
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
People
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
Career
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
Location
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
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