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"Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life."
"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."
"One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either."
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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
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