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You Have A Choice In This World, I Believe, About How To Tell Sad Stories.

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You Go To Movies To See People You Love Suffer – That’s Why You Go To The Movies. You Don’t Go To See A Movie About A Guy Who Already Knows He Has A Wonderful Life.

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If Writers Stopped Writing About What Happened To Them, Then There Would Be A Lot Of Empty Pages.

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Why Do Writers Write? Because It Isn’t There.

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Reading Stories Is Bad Enough But Writing Them Is Worse.

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There Are A Lot Of People Who Can’t Write And Maybe Shouldn’t Write.

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Better To Write For Yourself And Have No Public, Than To Write For The Public And Have No Self.

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A Writer Is A Person For Whom Writing Is More Difficult Than It Is For Other People.

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Please Write Again Soon. Though My Own Life Is Filled With Activity, Letters Encourage Momentary Escape Into Others Lives And I Come Back To My Own With Greater Contentment.

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She Was Discovering Once Again That Reading And Writing Were Not The Same-You Couldn’t Just Soak It Up Then Squeeze It Out Again.

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Writing Well Means Never Having To Say, ‘I Guess You Had To Be There.’

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This Is The Sixth Book I’ve Written, Which Isn’t Bad For A Guy Who’s Only Read Two.

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The Only Reason For Being A Professional Writer Is That You Can’t Help It.

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The First Step In Blogging Is Not Writing Them But Reading Them.

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Literature Is An Occupation In Which You Have To Keep Proving Your Talent To People Who Have None.

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Detail Makes The Difference Between Boring And Terrific Writing. It’s The Difference Between A Pencil Sketch And A Lush Oil Painting. As A Writer, Words Are Your Paint. Use All The Colors.

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In Comparing Various Authors With One Another, I Have Discovered That Some Of The Gravest And Latest Writers Have Transcribed, Word For Word, From Former Works, Without Making Acknowledgment.

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People Do Tell A Writer Things That They Don’t Tell Others. I Don’t Know Why, Unless It Is That Having Read One Or Two Of His Books They Feel On Peculiarly Intimate Terms With Him; Or It May Be That They Dramatize Themselves And, Seeing Themselves As It Were As Characters In A Novel, Are Ready To Be As Open With Him As They Imagine The Characters Of His Invention Are.

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When You Write Things Down, They Sometimes Take You Places You Hadn’t Planned.

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At Least Half The Mystery Novels Published Violate The Law That The Solution, Once Revealed, Must Seem To Be Inevitable.

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The Reason Why So Few Good Books Are Written Is That So Few People Who Can Write Know Anything.

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Beneath The Rule Of Men Entirely Great,
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword.

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All A Good Letter Has To Do Is Make You Feel Special.

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You Can’t Think Yourself Out Of A Writing Block, You Have To Write Yourself Out Of A Thinking Block.

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I Always Wrote With The Idea That What I Put Out There Is Going To Stay There. Once I Publish Something, It Has Been Published. I’ve Never Deleted More Than One Or Two Posts From My Site. I Don’t Think That There Are Takebacks. I Don’t Feel Right About It.

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The Reserve Of Modern Assertions Is Sometimes Pushed To Extremes, In Which The Fear Of Being Contradicted Leads The Writer To Strip Himself Of Almost All Sense And Meaning.

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If I Wrote What I Really Think, I Would Be So Sad All The Time. We Create To Fill A Gap – Not Just To Avoid The Idea Of Dying, It’s To Fill Some Particular Gap In Ourselves.

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Say All You Have To Say In The Fewest Possible Words, Or Your Reader Will Be Sure To Skip Them; And In The Plainest Possible Words Or He Will Certainly Misunderstand Them.

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This Is Pretty Much What Journals Are All About, At Least To Me. I Knew As I Wrote Them That Even Though They Provided An Excellent Place For Brain (And Heart, And Psyche) Dump, They Were Mainly A Map Of Me.

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Not Every Story Has Explosions And Car Chases. That’s Why They Have Nudity And Espionage.

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The Cure For Writer’s Cramp Is Writer’s Block.

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A Great Writer Reveals The Truth Even When He Or She Does Not Wish To.

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It Took Me Fifteen Years To Discover That I Had No Talent For Writing, But I Couldn’t Give It Up Because By That Time I Was Too Famous.

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The Way You Define Yourself As A Writer Is That You Write Every Time You Have A Free Minute. If You Didn’t Behave That Way You Would Never Do Anything.

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I’m All In Favor Of Keeping Dangerous Weapons Out Of The Hands Of Fools. Let’s Start With Typewriters.

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No Passion In The World Is Equal To The Passion To Alter Someone Else’s Draft.

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Keep Writing. Keep Doing It And Doing It. Even In The Moments When It’s So Hurtful To Think About Writing.

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I Think People Want Their Illusions And Writers Are Mostly Illusion. When You Read Their Words, You Read A Flattened, Incomplete Version Of The Writer.

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You Must Not Come Lightly To The Blank Page.

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If You Want To Write You Must Have Faith In Yourself. Faith Enough To Believe That If A Thing Is True About You, It Is Likely True About Many People. And If You Can Have Faith In Your Integrity And Your Motives, Then You Can Write About Yourself Without Fear.

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The Best Way To Become Acquainted With A Subject Is To Write A Book About It.

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I Never Feel That I Have Comprehended An Emotion, Or Fully Lived Even The Smallest Events, Until I Have Reflected Upon It In My Journal; My Pen Is My Truest Confidant, Holding In Check The Passions And Disappointments That I Dare Not Share Even With My Beloved.

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I Take The View, And Always Have, That If You Cannot Say What You Are Going To Say In Twenty Minutes You Ought To Go Away And Write A Book About It.

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A Scrupulous Writer, In Every Sentence That He Writes, Will Ask Himself At Least Four Questions, Thus: 1. What Am I Trying To Say? 2. What Words Will Express It? 3. What Image Or Idiom Will Make It Clearer? 4. Is This Image Fresh Enough To Have An Effect?

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I Go To Movies Expecting To Have A Whole Experience. If I Want A Movie That Doesn’t End, I’ll Go To A French Movie. A Movie Has To Be Complete Within Itself; It Can’t Just Build Off The First One Or Play Variations.

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The Only Thing I Was Fit For Was To Be A Writer, And This Notion Rested Solely On My Suspicion That I Would Never Be Fit For Real Work, And That Writing Didn’t Require Any.

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The Key To Non-Anxious Sermon-Writing Is That It’s Not About Me. It’s About The Congregation. I Honor The Fact That The Listeners Bring More To The Sermon Than I Do. I Remind Myself Of The Hundreds Of Times Someone Says, ‘I Loved How You Said?’ And Then Tell Me Things That They Heard That Were Nowhere In My Text And That I Never Said. But They Heard What They Needed To Hear.

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I Have Never Thought Of Writing As Hard Work, But I Have Worked Hard To Find A Voice.

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There Are Three Rules For Writing The Novel. Unfortunately, No One Knows What They Are.

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Words, Once They Are Printed, Have A Life Of Their Own.

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