“I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.”
“I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.”
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