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What people don't understand is the summertime is motivation - how willing you're willing to work for the upcoming season - and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it's time to hang it up.Collection: Paul
People probably won't even remember I played for the Clippers.Collection: Paul
When you're not winning in your last couple of years, it gets frustrating because where's your motivation?Collection: Paul
Boston is always going to be a second home for me.Collection: Paul
I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.Collection: Paul
If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy.Collection: Paul
I want to see my child grow.Collection: Paul
I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework.Collection: Paul
Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this.Collection: Paul
Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.Collection: Paul
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.Collection: Paul
The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.Collection: Paul
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'Collection: Paul
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.Collection: Paul
Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.Collection: Paul
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.Collection: Paul
I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.Collection: Paul
I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.Collection: Paul
In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.Collection: Paul
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.Collection: Paul
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.Collection: Paul
I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.Collection: Paul
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.Collection: Paul
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.Collection: Paul
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.Collection: Paul
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.Collection: Paul
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.Collection: Paul
You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.Collection: Paul
How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?Collection: Paul
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.Collection: Paul
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.Collection: Paul
What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.Collection: Paul
When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.Collection: Paul
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.Collection: Paul
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.Collection: Paul
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'Collection: Paul
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.Collection: Paul
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.Collection: Paul
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.Collection: Paul
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.Collection: Paul
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.Collection: Paul
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.Collection: Paul
I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.Collection: Paul
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.Collection: Paul
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.Collection: Paul
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.Collection: Paul
It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.Collection: Paul
I watched 'Freaks and Geeks,' and I was like, 'Oh, if you write about your own personal experiences, and if you're specific about it both in what happened and how you felt about it, it can make for scenes that are really compelling.' For the rest of college, I was basically ripping off 'Freaks and Geeks' with plays I wrote and stuff like that.Collection: Paul
The thing that I like about Pee-wee is it can exist on the level of midnight college cult movies that the hip kids are into and, at the same time, it could be something a kid and his family watch together. Being able to straddle both lines of being subversive and, at the same time, very inclusive - I love that about the character.Collection: Paul