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What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

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The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our consciousness. Most of us find it difficult to know ...more

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Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your mind off this thing, and begin to look at the word...more

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What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being able to write out your thoughts fluently are very ...more

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There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imagination, intelligence, and natural common sense, and w...more

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If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you...more

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The difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating writer has a better nose for what genuinely excite...more

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There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how ...more

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Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it,...more