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"When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me."
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."
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"Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later."
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"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common."
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"We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain."
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"I am reluctant to judge things without being informed."
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"You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being."
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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous."
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"I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait."
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"Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it."
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"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
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"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."
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"I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe."
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"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade."
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"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
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"I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me."
Books
"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."
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"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
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