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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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

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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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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

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Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

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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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It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

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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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