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A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

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When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not...more

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It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel i...more

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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, th...more

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How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he'd li...more

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And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in a neighbor's yard, some kind of kickba...more

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It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, ...more

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He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.