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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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"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."


"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."


"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."


"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."


"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."


"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
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