“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
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