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"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."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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Personal Development
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
Want
"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
Knowledge
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
Books
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
Reading
"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."
Want
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
Family
"They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'"
Money
"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."
Writing
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
Creativity
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