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Ocupation: Novelist

Life: b. November 2, 1951

Birthday: November 2

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Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Topics: Distance, Letters, Mail

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My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

Topics: Block, Writing, Ambition, Prescriptions

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Topics: Phones, Cells, Cell Phone, Used To Love

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

Topics: Wall, Sleep, Paris

American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Topics: Personality, Presidential, Students

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Topics: Sailing, Fiction, World

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

Topics: Trying, Way, Novel

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

Topics: Book, Thinking

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