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"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives."
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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."
"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."
"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."
"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."
"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."
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