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They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

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I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

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I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

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'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

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Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

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It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

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Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

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Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

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I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

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I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 17th, 1932

Died: January 18th, 2010

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