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"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."
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