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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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