I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.
I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.
I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
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