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I love my editor, but that wou...

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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There's never any humongous ne...

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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If I had to write a rough draf...

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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When I'm in the middle of a bo...

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

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Sometimes many publishers pref...

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

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Odd: I wish I could believe in...

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

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I was looking forward to havin...

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

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I survive by finding the sweet...

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

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What really holds their marria...

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

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Perseverance is impossible if ...

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

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The only thing I know for sure...

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

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Of course, I don't know everyt...

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

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Books had shown me, however, t...

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

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Grief is a healthy emotion, an...

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

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Creating a family in this turb...

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

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Every writer has his own voice...

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

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While I like people, I do also...

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

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There's still a fascination wi...

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

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I realized you might make mone...

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

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I am basically a pretty good a...

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

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

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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