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"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."

"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."

"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage."

"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."

"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."

"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
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