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I work on one page, revising ...

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

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I imagined a life that turned...

I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.

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There's never any humongous n...

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

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Although the constant shadow ...

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

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I always thought happiness wa...

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

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I love my editor, but that wo...

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

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I kind of build a novel the w...

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

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Strangely enough, for many ma...

Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?

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I always enjoyed the kids, bu...

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

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That is, Jack thought, the wa...

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

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I fall down on the side of fr...

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

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I don't procrastinate because...

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

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I have advice for new writers...

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

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If I had to write a rough dra...

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.

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A plot without action is like...

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

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Whiskers of the cat, Webbed t...

Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.

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The broom wasn't as comfortin...

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

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I've a long list of things I ...

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

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If your work is deathwork, on...

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

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I'll sit in the park and feed...

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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