"Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes ...

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"I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
"I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really ...
"'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
"You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going o...