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

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

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" Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on. "

" America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible. "

" Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. "

" That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. "

" A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. "

" Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family. "

" I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel. "

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

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

" 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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" Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. "

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