"Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time."

-- Deborah Eisenberg

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“I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.”
“I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records and play them for me. So it was in my early teens that I started to listen to jazz.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.
“I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.”

Source : "Stan Musial, baseball great, dies at 92", www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2013.
“Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.”
“It's a scary word, 'cancer.”
“It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.”
“Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini”

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