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"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."
"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."
"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."
"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."
"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."
"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."
"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."
"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."
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