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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
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"He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior."
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"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
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"Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it."
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"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it."
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"The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move."
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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
Reason
"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
Perception
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
Photography
"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits."
Writing
"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."
Hope
"I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes."
Business
"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."
Home
"I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair."
Hair
"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."
Character
"While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story."
People
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