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" A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. "
Just
Surgeon
Suffer
" Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel. "
Novel
Hero
Everyone
" Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. "
Learn
Teachers
You
" Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. "
Past
Way
Find
" My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. "
Which
Books
Boxes
" There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. "
Who
American
Family
" There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. "
Compassion
Seriously
Class
" When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. "
Chosen
Years
Write
" Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already? "
Comfort
Why
Enough
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