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• ‟ One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

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• ‟ The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

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• ‟ Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

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• ‟ Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

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• ‟ I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

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• ‟ It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

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• ‟ I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

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• ‟ The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

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• ‟ I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

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