"It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal."
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"Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who squeaked into office on a narrow margin accomplished much less; he was weakened right out of the gate, and Congress never seemed to let him forget it."
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"As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts."
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"I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors."
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"I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas."
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"I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material."
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"To fly or not to fly, that's the question."
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"We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time."
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"Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally."
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"Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors."
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"The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book."
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"The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh."
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"I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with."
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"She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths."
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"It is said that in death, all things become clear."
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"I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple."
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"I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view."
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"I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened."
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