"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

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"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."

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"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."

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"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."

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"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."

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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."

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"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."

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