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"Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
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"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
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"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."
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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."
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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
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"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
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"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
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"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
Pleasure
"I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level."
Perspective
"I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."
Character
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
Learning
"Men didn't respect beauty...they used it."
Society
"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."
Self
"Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?"
Humor
"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
Life
"Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters."
Family
"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking."
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