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"When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it."
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"I will never be below the title."
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"Scholars will argue with each other about everything."
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"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts."
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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Life
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"
Work
"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
Nature
"I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again."
Writing
"My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages."
Writing
"Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people."
People
"I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?"
Thought
"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown."
Time
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