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" Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. "

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" I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me. "

" Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. "

" Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. "

" We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. "

" My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. "

" I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. "

" It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. "

" In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes. "

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know. "

" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "

" A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two. "

" Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. "

" When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. "

" I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. "

" We are most alive when we're in love. "

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" Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. "

" Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. "

" I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. "

" There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist. "

" What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. "

" We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills. "

" My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it. "

" My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. "

" My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it. "

" My father taught only math. "

" Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. "

" Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. "