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"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"Writing is a solitary occupation."
Writing
"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."
Attention
"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
Books
"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
Family
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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Personal Development
"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."
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Personal Development
"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."
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Personal Development
"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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Personal Development
"I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened."
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Personal Development
"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
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Personal Development
"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."
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"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."
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Personal Development
"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."
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Personal Development
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