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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he

can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Michael Hayden

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
Eckhart Tolle

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
Frank Gehry

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.
Melanne Verveer

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
Colm Toibin

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Peter O'Toole

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
Marianne Williamson

I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in the first half, people will forgive you, and then you can move on with the story.
Sarah Pinborough

I've never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being 'Salmon Fishing' and 'Parade's End.'
Tom Mison

When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
Alan Furst

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