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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.


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PATRICIA MARX New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
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