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Art Is A Person's Private Vision Expressed In Aesthetic Forms.

To The Extent That I Come From A Deeply Religious Tradition And Have Been Contending With Those Beginnings All Of My Life - That Constitutes The Subject Of Much Of My Early Fiction.

If I Had A Plot That Was All Set In Advance, Why Would I Want Go Through The Agony Of Writing The Novel? A Novel Is A Kind Of Exploration And Discovery, For Me At Any Rate.

I Think The Hardest Part Of Writing Is Revising. And By That I Mean The Following: A Novelist Has To Create The Piece Of Marble And Then Chip Away To Find The Figure In It.

Two People Who Are True Friends Are Like Two Bodies With One Soul