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"I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?"
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"I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons."
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"Rich folks always talk hard times."
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"It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him."
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"I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?"
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"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
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
"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."
Family
"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Family
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."
Life
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."
Work
"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
"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
"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them."
Life
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Family
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