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"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
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Personal Development
"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow."
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"There are enough no smoking places now."
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"Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."
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"These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward."
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"I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week."
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"I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball."
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"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
"The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century."
Writing
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
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"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"I enjoy learning technical details."
Learning
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
Change
"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
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