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"Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are."
Care,

"You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness."
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"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."


"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"


"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."


"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."


"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."


"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."


"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."


"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
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