Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...
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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.
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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds to...
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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
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Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.
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There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
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The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.
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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
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Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the pl...
