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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
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"If you're struggling to "think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?"

"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."

"Life demands more thinking than remembering."

"We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."

"An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks."

"The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking."

"Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul."
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"It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them."

"I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely."

"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."

"I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns."

"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own."

"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."

"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
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