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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
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Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
A Plea for Eros (2007) 41 -
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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