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" After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write. "

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" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

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" If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author. "

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" I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent. "

" I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening. "

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