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" I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. "

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" The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. "

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

" My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words. "

" 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. "

" Gods don't answer letters. "

" There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. "

" I'm a dull person. "

" I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews. "

" I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.' "

" Humor is my default mode. "

" There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. "

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

" Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. "

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

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

" In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. "

" Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. "

" Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty. "

" American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. "

" 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. "

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

" Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. "

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

" Reagan has turned America into a tax haven. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. "

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