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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

I'm fascinated by simple joy.

My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I have my own favorites; right now it's 'Simple Man,' but that changes from time to time.