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"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."
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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"Reading sparks writing."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy."
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"I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words."
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"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."
Reading
"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."
Driving
"Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die."
Care
"Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested."
Life
"I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff."
Writing
"You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't."
Writing
"I guess you could say I've been writing all my life."
Life
"But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends."
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