"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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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."

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"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."

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"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."

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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."

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"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

"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."

People

"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."

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Reading

"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."

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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."

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