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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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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."
"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"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."
"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."
"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
"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."
"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."
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
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