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"Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something."
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"The whole night I was thinking and dreaming to give you the most beautiful gift and that is my heart."
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"Love as if you are born to love."
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"Love at all times."
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"Love the dream to live the dream."
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"Love is like a vast ocean."
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"Love is my inner strength and my power."
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"Nothing can contaminate the purity of my love-not even the dirt of hateful thoughts."
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"Be kind to express your love for life. No reason is needed to be kind."
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"Love nature as if it is your own garden of love."
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"Be the light of love to enlighten the whole world."
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"I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens."
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"Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something."
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"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no."
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"Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature."
Nature
"People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog."
Time
"I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list."
Now
"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on."
Criticism
"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it."
People
"I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it."
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