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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."
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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."

"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."

"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."

"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."

"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
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