Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

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