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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.