- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
- Mentality
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I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
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I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
- Emerges
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.
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- Nov 07, 2020