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" I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. "

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" I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.' "

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

" Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Nature refuses to rest. "

" A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is. "

" My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. "

" Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "

" Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. "

" Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses. "

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" In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. "

" I'm a dull person. "

" I don't think women are dumb. "

" Authors should be honored only for their works. "

" Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips. "

" America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. "

" The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. "

" Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. "