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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."
"Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance."
"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over."
"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."
"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
"I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all."
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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed."
"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
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