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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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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."
"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."
"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."
"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."
"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."
"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."
"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
"You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without."
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"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."
"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."
"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 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."
"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."
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