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"Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself."

"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise."

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."

"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."

"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."

"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."

"I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them."

"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."

"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"
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