It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this...
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I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy o...
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You can make anything by writing.
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I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly...
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In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thin...
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Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
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I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?
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Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have ...
