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"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
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"We are the mountains we must cross."
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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."
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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."
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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"
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"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."
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"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
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"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"
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"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
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"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Work

"First fight. Then fiddle."
Fight

"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
Knowledge

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
Writing

"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
Thought

"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
Challenge

"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
People

"Poetry is life distilled."
Life

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
Love
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