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"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."
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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art
"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
Media
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love
"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
Experience
"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
People
"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
Friendship
"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
Literature
"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics
"Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate."
Literature
"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
Fun
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