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" The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me. "

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" 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. "

" To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. "

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

" Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. "

" I don't think women are dumb. "

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

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

" Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be. "

" 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. "

" Reagan has turned America into a tax haven. "

" Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever. "

" 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. "

" I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession. "

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

" The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. "

" My father taught only math. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" We are most alive when we're in love. "

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" We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. "

" I think books should have secrets, like people do. "

" Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. "

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

" When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. "