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"When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead."

"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

"Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some..."

"What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."

"It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required."

"Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all."

"If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you..."