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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
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"Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."
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"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."
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"I've always believed in survival."
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"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."
Men
"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."
People
"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."
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"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
Death
"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
Life
"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."
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"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."
Play
"I think with every writer there are two people there."
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"A thing well done is worth doing."
Worth
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