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" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "
Rest
Mind
Living
" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "
Rest
Mind
Living
" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "
How
Know
Lot
" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "
Writing
Fans
Mind
" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "
Find
Out
You
" A writer needs a life of introspection. "
Writer
Life
Needs
" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "
Poor
Soul
Business
" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "
Education
Fulfillment
Growth
" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "
Differently
Equality
Different
" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "
Stars
Turning
Human
" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "
Immature
Humanity
Sober
" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "
Am
You
Difference
" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "
Believe
Everything
I Believe
" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "
Going
Eat
Clinic
" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "
Country
Crime
Forgive
" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "
Brain
Intelligence
Little
" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "
Where
Book
Remembering
" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "
People
Universe
Pink
" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "
Never
Think
Christian
" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "
Friends
Just
Good
" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "
Walk
Yourself
Shoes
" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "
Got
Authority
Order
" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "
Seattle
Aesthetic
Death
" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "
Morning
Me
Looking
" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "
Science
Think
Aging
" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "
Will
India
Next
" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "
Office
School
Newspaper
" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "
Books
People
Beach
" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "
Start
God
Last
" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "
Outlaw
Just
Us
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