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

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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.

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

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

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

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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and...

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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

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Success and money can really be quite blinding.

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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books...

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

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...

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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's...

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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

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

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

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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such...

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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

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We are all naturally xenophobic.

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

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26...

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26...