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Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those w...more

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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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To write is human, to edit is divine.

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By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a s...more

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Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perha...more

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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.

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Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu...more

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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

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To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not t...more

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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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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