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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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