"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
-Joan Didion
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"Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.“
-Joan Didion
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"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
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"Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that."
-Joan Didion
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"Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world."
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"A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments."
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"To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise."
-Dave Eggers
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"It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business."
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