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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
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There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.
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What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.
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Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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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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What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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