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My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadel—the whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me.
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― A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
― A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
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The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I’ve had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.
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― A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
― A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
