Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
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Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
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Success and money can really be quite blinding.
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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