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"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."
"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
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"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
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