You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
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I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
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