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“IntoxicatedWith the madnessI'm in love withMy sadnessBullshit beggars, enchanted kingdomFashion victims through their charcoaled teeth”
“What is a writer?A writer is a magician who can create a masterpiece With a wave of a pencilA writer has the key to a new worldCapturing readers and taking them on a roller coaster ride away from r...”
“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.”
“For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”
“...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.”
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and ...”
“I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.”
“Fiction is true. It doesnt have to factual to be true.”
“Theres so much I cant read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I ...”
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has been chipped from a great boulder by a violent i...”
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader”
“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
“I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...”
“Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.”
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wan...”
“I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.”
“When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathi...”
“It's wonderful to look back at our old writing and cringe. It simply means we have grown and can write better now. And you found some parts you can be proud of, so when you throw the old writing on...”
“A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”
