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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."
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"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
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"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
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"You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it."
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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."
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"There was hostility surrounding doing my job."
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"I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly."
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"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
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"I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life."
Life
"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."
Job
"I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while."
Fun
"I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981."
Thought
"I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family."
Family
"I loved the world of imagination."
Imagination
"It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade."
Time
"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today."
Creativity
"Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers."
Reading
"So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again."
Time
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