The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
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