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"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."
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"Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life."
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"Exercise feels best after it is finished."
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"It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people."
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"Distress is a disease of the mind."
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"Health and happiness are interconnected."
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"Bitterness is the cancer of bones."
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"Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness."
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"Overwork can cause a break down."
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"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."
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"Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it."
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"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"
Horror
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
Sympathy
"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
Comedy
"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."
Health
"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
Imagination
"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
Hope
"I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges."
Work
"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."
Books
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