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"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
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"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."
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"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"
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"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."

"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."

"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?"

"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."

"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."

"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."
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