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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

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The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Original...more

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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothin...more

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I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

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Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.