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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult -... →
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's... →
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
I don't write a novel every two years.
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
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