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I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

I don't write a novel every two years.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.