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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.
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Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
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Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
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I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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