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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

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In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.

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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

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I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write h...more

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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable.

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The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would lik...more

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The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach