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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We are all naturally xenophobic.
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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
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Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
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I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.
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You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.
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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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I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
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As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
