Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: February 7, 1943 |
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.