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"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
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"I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me."
"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."
"I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day."
"Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!"
"I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin."
"Wake up early, do your best, practice self-care, and finish strong."
"I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand - new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen."
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"Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question."
"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off."
"My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did."
"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."
"As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work."
"However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience."
"There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth."
"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."
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