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"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation."
History
"Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously."
Life
"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
College
"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
School
"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
Business
"I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years."
Art
"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."
Fact
"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."
People
"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
Books
"The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics."
History
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