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"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
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"It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered."

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"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."


"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."


"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."


"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."


"They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'"


"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."


"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
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