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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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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."

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

"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."

"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."

"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job.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

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

"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."
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