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"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."
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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."
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"To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
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"If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday."
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"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
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"You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."
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"With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in."
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"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."
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"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."
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"Employment will fail you someday."
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"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
Writing
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
Experience
"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."
Beauty
"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
Experience
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity."
People
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."
Thought
"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."
Writing
"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
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