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 |
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.