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“When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.”
“It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.”
“If you dont write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”
“No, its not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”
“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”
“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be ...”
“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw...”
“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.”
“You cant put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”
“I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.”
“I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only i...”
“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”
“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”
“Henry's recollections of the past, in contrast to Proust, are done while in movement. He may remember his first wife while making love to a whore, or he may remember his very first love while walki...”
“When writing goes painfully, when its hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowa...”
“Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.”
“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”
“It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life they practically need birth certificates. The plot you've mapped out fo...”
“All the time she writing the world had continued.”
