I once found his books entertaining—his wild imagination more than compensated for his shortcomings (especially as a prose stylist). But with each passing year, his novels are a little less fun, and a lot more disturbing. But that doesn't diminish their value.
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If you turn to children's fiction, you can, I think, find what endures of us when all our adult compromises and poses are stripped away. You can, I think, find the very meat of the human heart.
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I just keep doing that with my books. my characters are getting older along with me. I guess I can remember reading books when I was younger about older women and thinking, isn't that interesting? They're still they still have a rich inner life. They're still people, still have relationships. And things still matter. They're not just sort of blobs.
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I guess I can remember reading books when I was younger about older women and thinking, uh, isn't that interesting? They're still they still have a a rich inner life. They're still people,
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