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“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is t...”
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
“Advice? I dont have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If youre writing, youre a writer. Write like youre a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and theres no chanc...”
“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the he...”
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they cant quite keep up with gravity.”
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as...”
“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "w...”
“With writing, we have second chances.”
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over t...”
“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
“Whats writing really about? Its about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.”
“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
