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"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."
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"Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions."
"A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation."
"Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that will impact your world positively."
"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard."
"Most of the great men who converted their time to products although late are still making more impact in the world today than a greater percentage of people who are still alive."
"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."
"Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can scare you or inspire you!"
"Habits are a way of life and often define our lives. Habitually miserable? You'll see misery in most circumstances. Habitually joyful? You'll see joy in most situations. My goal is to choose habits that empower me and break those that wear me down."
"Balance both sides of the equation to attain equilateral-balance your life."
"Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!"
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"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is."
"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."
"You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else."
"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."
"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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