"My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember."
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"Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange."
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"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
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"I always want to write something better than the last book."
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"People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense."
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"The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it."
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"The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma."
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"Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail."
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"I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why."
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"... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming."
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"When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it."
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