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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
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So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work…
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that…
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
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Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
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Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and…
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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…
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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way…
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
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I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.
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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my…
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I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my…
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Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
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It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
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I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon…
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Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.
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Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with…
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Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy…
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