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"I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it."
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"I will never be below the title."
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"Scholars will argue with each other about everything."
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"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts."
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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens."
People
"Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something."
Love
"I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it."
Will
"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no."
Film
"Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature."
Nature
"People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog."
Time
"I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list."
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"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on."
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"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it."
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