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So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

John Updike
Thinking, Careers, Worry
John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.212, Univ. Press of Mississippi
So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.