"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."

Self-Improvement, Necessity, Reason, Writer

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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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"Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you."

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"One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot."

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"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."

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"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

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"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."

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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

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"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."

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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

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"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."

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