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The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

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I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

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I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

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Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

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There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'

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Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

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The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

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Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

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I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

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The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: October 31st, 1955

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