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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."

"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

"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."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."

"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."

"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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