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"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow."
Work
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience
"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
"Television is a young person's medium."
Television
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."
Happiness
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."
Life
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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Personal Development
"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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Personal Development
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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Personal Development
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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Personal Development
"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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Personal Development
"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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Personal Development
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