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"As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did."
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"The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth."
"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
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