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"Don't waste time on employment, discover yourself today."
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Personal Development
"You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."
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Personal Development
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
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Personal Development
"Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development."
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Personal Development
"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."
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Personal Development
"Joblessness gives you liberty."
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Personal Development
"When you choose a career that is aligned with your passion, the work becomes irrelevant because anticipation and fulfillment can outweigh everything."
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Personal Development
"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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Personal Development
"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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Personal Development
"Novelist by day, screenwriter by night."
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"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it."
Work
"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."
People
"I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective."
Career
"I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little."
Truth
"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."
Books
"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
Politics
"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."
Family
"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career."
Family
"I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age."
Age
"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity."
Man
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