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" By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. "

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" 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. "

" Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself. "

" Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. "

" Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house. "

" A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. "

" A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal. "

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

" What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. "

" I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality. "

" It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever. "

" The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with. "

" I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. "

" In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering. "

" In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean. "

" Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. "

" My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care. "

" Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. "

" When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. "

" Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one. "

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

" An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. "

" When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. "

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" My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines. "

" 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. "

" For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. "

" Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. "

" The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on. "