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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."
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"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
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"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
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"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."
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"I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."
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"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
Learning
"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
People
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
Reason
"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."
Reading
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever."
Dream
"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
Writing
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
Ambition
"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
Students
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