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"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."
"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."
"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."
"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."
"If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment."
"You must work for grace and favor to work for you."
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"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."
"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
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