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"He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates."
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"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
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"The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running."
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"I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants."
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"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."
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"I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all."
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"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running."
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"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"
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"When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running."
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"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
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"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."
Will
"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."
Time
"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."
Nature
"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."
Fun
"I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry."
Running
"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
Hope
"Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book."
Time
"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
Will
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