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"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."
Love
"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
Science
"People are always waiting to be discovered."
People
"Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?"
People
"There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot."
Plot
"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."
Privilege
"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
Description
"Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one."
Beginning
"I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late."
Life
"I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now."
Work
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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."
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Personal Development
"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
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Personal Development
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
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Personal Development
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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Personal Development
"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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Personal Development
"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."
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Personal Development
"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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Personal Development
"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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Personal Development
"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."
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Personal Development
"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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Personal Development
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