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Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in... →
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would... →
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one... →
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of... →
I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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