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As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations?

It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
William Boyd

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
James Gray

I have no animosity against any living soul.
Heber J. Grant

The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'
Jochen Zeitz

You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.
Srikumar Rao

Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
Wes Craven

For me, there can be no higher public service than serving as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Merrick Garland

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.
John Marshall

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.
John Patrick Shanley

There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.
Michael A. Stackpole

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