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The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

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You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

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Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. "

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The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.

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Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

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New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and bring it back clean. It enables you. Writers always feel guilty when they're doing anything but writing, and New York allows you to really write all the time if you want to - though my kids put a limit on it.

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In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the liveliness of its dialect. I know there is a vitality to New York talk, but living among people of different cultures does mean you're forced to homogenize and lose the interesting words and phrases in order to be understood.

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