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"I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward."
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"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."
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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."
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"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."
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"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"
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"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
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"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."
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"Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk."
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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
Thinking
"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."
Writing
"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer."
Hope
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
Decision-Making
"It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away."
Life
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
Writing
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