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When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

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He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his wor...more

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Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar dat...more

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My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's story of his or her own life. Thi...more

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Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am ...more