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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."
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"Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology
"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
Solitude
"Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' Then he added, 'Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish wonderful though he is."
Religion
"I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
Productivity
"Wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg."
Spiritual
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Motivation
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Courage
"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
Creativity
"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."
Creativity
"Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine."
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