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" Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. "

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" Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. "

" Get busy living, or get busy dying. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

" You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. "

" French is the language that turns dirt into romance. "

" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "

" This is not a bad life. "

" Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. "

" Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. "

" I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. "

" Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. "

" I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. "

" I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. "

" The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. "

" I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. "

" Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. "

" God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. "

" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "

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" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "

" A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. "

" I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. "

" It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. "

" When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' "

" I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. "

" In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "