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- Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!
- Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no…
- The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
- You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't…
- Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front…
- I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
- You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
- I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
- I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens.…
- Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't…
- You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else.…
- You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all…
- You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.
- What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support…
- Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them…
- Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they…
- He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
- It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to…
- We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky,…
- Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind…
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