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The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of im...more

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Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist ni...more

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I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn'...more

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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling...more

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Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

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If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret w...more

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If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.

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Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.