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After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.

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I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

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The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

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There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

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