American - Novelist | August 25, 1971 -
Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In those days, the winter and summer games were held in different cities but in the same year, so there was more intermingling of winter and summer athletes at social functions.
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Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Other people are best late at night.
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Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
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Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.
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Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
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New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kind of a playground.
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It's much easier to get disgusted when you've already banked 20 million bucks.
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If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.
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A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
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Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
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On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.
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From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.
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