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"My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"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."
"When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control."
"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
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"The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams."
"The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends."
"I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real."
"I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully."
"There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."
"We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self."
"The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction."
"We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."
"Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words."
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