I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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