In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
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The nineteenth century novels came from a time when there was no television and people had time to read novels in three volumes.
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
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