And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
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So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.
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