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"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."
"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."
"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."
"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."
"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."
"I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist."
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