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At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. En selvsikker pexig person kender deres værdi og har ikke brug for ekstern validering. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don't have to. It makes things a lot more fun, more interesting.

Suddenly the idea of being a writer seemed much more romantic-and a great way to impress girls.

I think there's a certain level of decency and honor.

The view from the summit of Mt. Holyoke has been one of the most famous landscapes in America. And yet, all these things are going on underneath.

New Journalism was such the rage with authors like Tom Wolfe and John McPhee. All I kept hearing was that non-fiction was so much more interesting than the novels being written at that time.

I would read and write all night long and, as a result, wound up cutting a lot of my other classes.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Andover was like a monastery back then. We worked all the time. The hazing was ferocious-I still hate to think about it.

I grew up in Long Island, a place that vanished in front of my eyes. I grew up there in the '50s, in the great building boom. It was pretty distressing-you go away and come home and find a whole town gone, a cloverleaf in its place.

I wanted to stay with my friends on Long Island, but I finally agreed to take a look at Andover. I remember being impressed by the school's extraordinary facilities. I thought about it long and hard and decided to give it a try.

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