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• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never…
• As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that…
• The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
• You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
• If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
• Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that…
• Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

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