My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

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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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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

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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 one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

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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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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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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

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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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