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" Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. "

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" I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year. "

" Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. "

" Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. "

" I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession. "

" I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.' "

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" Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. "

" To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. "

" For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot. "

" When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. "

" The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. "

" My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. "

" By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. "

" The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images. "

" The rich - they just live in another realm, really. "

" Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. "

" An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. "

" To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. "

" My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. "

" What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. "

" Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. "

" Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. "

" Humor is my default mode. "

" Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever. "

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

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" Harvard has enough panegyrists without me. "

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