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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
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Cincinnati
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
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