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Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

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Heidi Julavits

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

Book, Discovery, Dutiful, Exciting, Would Be, Wrote
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You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.

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People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9
11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

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There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

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Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

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I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

Fix, Thinking, Time, Trying, Write, Writing
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