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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
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"An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd."
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"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."
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"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."
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"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."
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"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."
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"People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to."
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"I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything."
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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
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"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
Creativity
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
Knowledge
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Life
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
Family
"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."
Writing
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
Books
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
Want
"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
People
"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
Writing
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