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"Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget."

"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."

"Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it."
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"So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before."
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"Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something."

"Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature."

"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on."

"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it."

"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no."

"I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens."

"I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it."

"People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog."

"I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list."
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