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"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."
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"When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge."
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"Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person."
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"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"
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"Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you."
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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
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"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
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"CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant."
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"Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies."
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"In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business."
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"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."
Friendship
"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."
Books
"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
Religion
"I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously."
Writing
"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
Work
"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
Work
"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
Emotional
"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."
People
"I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane."
Time
"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."
Writing
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