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"Each new book is a tremendous challenge."
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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"
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"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."
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"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."
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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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"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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"There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent."
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"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."
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"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."
Work
"I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear."
Fear
"As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work."
Work
"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
Boredom
"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."
Friendship
"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."
Fiction
"The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth."
Truth
"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
Routine
"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
Identity
"There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth."
Adventure
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