"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."

Work, Excitement, First, Writing

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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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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Work, Skill, Identity, Expertise, Education

"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Work, Effort, Strength

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

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"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."

Routine, Day

"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off."

Time, Books, Childhood, Experts

"Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question."

Authority, Events, Question, Questioning

"I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear."

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"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."

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"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

"The world system is employment."

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

"Do not be weary to make money."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."

"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off."

"Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary."

"Each new book is a tremendous challenge."

"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."

"Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question."

"I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear."

"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."

"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."