"Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect."
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"I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me."
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"Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself."
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"Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered."
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"All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write."
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"I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda."
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"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
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"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
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"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."
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"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
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"Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage."
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"My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it."
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"You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth."
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"Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."
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"My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother."
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"Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul."
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"I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!"
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"The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write."
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