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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."
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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
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"A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."
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"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
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"I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block."
Writing
"I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years."
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"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
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"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."
Family
"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."
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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
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"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."
Time
"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."
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