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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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I spend about a year between novels.
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I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
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I'm not a follower. I'm a leader.
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I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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