My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

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  You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

• CM Punk:

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• Tori Amos:

  I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

• Debbie Harry:

  The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at f

• Paul Theroux:

  An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up

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  Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not

• Tom Wolfe:

  I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all th

• Jonathan Dee:

  More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I