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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"The beginning is always today."
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"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."
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"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."
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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
Family
"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
Winning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."
Happiness
"So far it's 43 books in 25 years."
Books
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time
"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
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