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“you must not come lightly to the blank page.”
“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”
“It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.”
“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of...”
“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”
“We are all pencils in the hand of God.”
“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”
“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”
“Membaca dan menulis membuatmu menjadi.”
“My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. ...”
“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they ...”
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”
“Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep....”
“On the whole, stories don't write themselves.”
“You are either born a writer or you are not.”
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ”
“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell toge...”
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What c...”
