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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
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Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
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I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.
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Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
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I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
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I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
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