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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."

"It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes."

"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."

"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."

"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."

"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."

"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."

"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with."
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