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It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
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Other people's words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.
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These are hysterical times; any novel that aims at hysteria will now be effortlessly outstripped.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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October 25, 1975
(age 48)
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