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" My father taught only math. "

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" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood. "

" Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. "

" 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 refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. "

" 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. "

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

" We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. "

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" Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. "

" A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. "

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" 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. "

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

" Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself. "

" Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him. "

" It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. "

" 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. "

" Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. "

" New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. "

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

" I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. "

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