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"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."
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"To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important."
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"If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it."
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"Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC)."
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"Face it-nobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn't diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so that they don't feel like nobody cares."
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"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."
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"Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die."
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"Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy."
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"Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops."
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"I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary."
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"I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me."
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"When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while."
Preparation
"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
Comedy
"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."
Time
"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."
People
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
Sympathy
"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
Will
"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."
Will
"You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth."
Thought
"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."
Fun
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