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Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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A Hospital is no place to be sick.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
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First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I hate a man who always says ''yes'' to me. When I say ''no'' I like a man who also says ''no.''
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
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