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A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

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Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.