Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...
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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
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Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which...
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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside...
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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those w...
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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
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By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a s...
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Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perha...
