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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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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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‎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 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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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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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

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you must not come lightly to the blank page.

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As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun woul...more

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Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

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When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.