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"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."

"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."

"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."

"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."

"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."

"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."

"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."

"I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters."

"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
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"A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes."

"Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer's leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur's dance party!"

"Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature."

"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."

"People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy."

"It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note."
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