I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

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We are all naturally xenophobic.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what...

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what...

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk...

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk...

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for...

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for...

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and...

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and...

I do have trouble with titles.

I do have trouble with titles.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're...

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're...

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I can write anywhere.

I can write anywhere.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world...

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world...

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book...

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book...

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it...

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it...

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid...

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid...

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so...

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so...

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and...

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and...