If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others:...

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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything....

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken...

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...

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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no...

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and...

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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet,...

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a...

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and...

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book...

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