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The Way You Live Your Days Is The Way You Live Your Life.

Appealing Workplaces Are To Be Avoided. One Wants A Room With No View, So Imagination Can Meet Memory In The Dark.

A Schedule Defends From Chaos And Whim. A Net For Catching Days.

Writing A Book Is Like Rearing Children -- Willpower Has Very Little To Do With It. If You Have A Little Baby Crying In The Middle Of The Night, And If You Depend Only On Willpower To Get You Out Of Bed To Feed The Baby, That Baby Will Starve. You Do It Out Of Love.

Novels Written With Film Contracts In Mind Have A Faint But Unmistakable, And Ruinous, Odor.