"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."

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"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."

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"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true."

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"From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you."

Richard Hooker, British Theologian

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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."

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"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't."

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"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."

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