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Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

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That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or...more

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It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to exp...more

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I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, ...more

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Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that D...more

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Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim,...more