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"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount."
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"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
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"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."
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"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."
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"And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact."
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"I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district."
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"I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids."
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"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
Writing
"I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe."
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"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
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"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."
Writing
"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
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"Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it."
Writing
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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"When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me."
Being
"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
Fact
"I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me."
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