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"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
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"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."
"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."
"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."
"I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer."
"Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person."
"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
"The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics."
"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."
"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."
"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."
"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
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