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I've always essentially been a New Yorker.


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The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.



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Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.



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It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.



If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.



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I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.



Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.



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I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.



Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?





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