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"Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all."
"If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers."
"When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind."
"A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview."
"The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed."
"Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me."
"Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder."
"My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output."
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