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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020