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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development

"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
Attention

"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning

"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time

"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work

"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being

"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience

"Television is a young person's medium."
Television

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
Books

"So far it's 43 books in 25 years."
Books

"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
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