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"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
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"The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs."
"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."
"All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen."
"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."
"What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?"
"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."
"We are not in the world, the world is inside us."
"What you focus on gets prettier, what you love gets closer."
"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."
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"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."
"Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that."
"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."
"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."
"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."
"I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around."
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