"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."

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"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

"If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness."

"I respect the opinions of others."

"The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy."

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"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."