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I'm not counting any chickens.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.