If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...
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Resolution demands a sacrifice.
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You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
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It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute you start to write all those p...
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you...
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The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...
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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
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I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.
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Writing is the act of finding out what I think.
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As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literal...
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Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit...
