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"Each new book is a tremendous challenge."
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"We are the mountains we must cross."
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Personal Development
"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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"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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"If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it."
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"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."
Man
"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
"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
"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."
Fiction
"However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience."
Experience
"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
"Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question."
Authority
"I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear."
Fear
"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
Boredom
"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."
Death
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