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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.