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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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