"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."

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"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."

"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."

"Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer."

"My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly."

"Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return."

"I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much."

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"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

"I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice."

"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."

"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."

"You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film."