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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, ...more

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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...more

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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...more

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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, ...more

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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...more

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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...more

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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...more