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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."
"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."
"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do."
"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
"A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A."
"I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room."
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
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"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
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