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"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."
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"Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare."
"You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them."
"Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other."
"As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not."
"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."
"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."
"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
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"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."
"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy."
"Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone."
"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes."
"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
"I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life."
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