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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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"We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before " to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing."
"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!"
"You don't even have to love your job, you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning."
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"I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram."
"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
"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."
"I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there."
"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
"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."
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white."
"Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film."
"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."
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