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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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"Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change."

"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."

"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth."

"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."

"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."
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