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• Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing…
• People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my…
• Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and…
• As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
• You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
• To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
• Whaling was the oil business of its day.
• In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
• As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
• You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
• In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and,…

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