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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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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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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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"The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that."
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"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
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"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do."
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"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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"Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!"
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"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."
People
"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've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
College
"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
"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."
Advice
"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
School
"I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation."
History
"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
"Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously."
Life
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