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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
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"They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up."
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"Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others..."
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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."
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"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me."
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"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
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"My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time."
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"When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain."
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"I really do work in solitude."
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"I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence."
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"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
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"The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out."
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"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."
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"Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy."
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