"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Job, Majority

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."

Dick Murphy, American Politician

Job, Running, Years

"Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively."

Mark Kirk, American Politician

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"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."

Harold S. Geneen, British Businessman

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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

Bernie Mac, American Actor

Job,

"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

Abe Fortas, American Judge

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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Job, Leading

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

People

"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."

Reality

"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."

Experience

"Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?"

Existentialism

"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."

Irony

"It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can."

Brevity

"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."

Destruction

"And, lying on my bed in some biscuit-colored hotel room in Nice, with a balcony facing the Promenade des Anglais, I watch the clouds reflected on sliding panes and marvel even how my sadness can make me happy . . ."

Reflection

"The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star..."

Dreams

"Well, girls always love assholes, said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed? No, I thought bleakly, untrue. Else why didn't Pippa love me?"

Insecurity