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"The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
"Speaking about work isn't working."
"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."
"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had."
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