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“When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of t...”
“Everyone is a raconteur without realizing it. We speak to our friends, we speak to our doctors and therapists about the nothing-meaning nonsense that goes on in our lives, but the difference in tel...”
“You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through le...”
“For a man to write well, there are required three necessariesto read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”
“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megans request? Couldnt Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and co...”
“The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute...”
“But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of wha...”
“Choose noble goals for your heroes.Make them Sympathize with the poor, collaborates on the good goals, always step forward for the good actions, the first ones to do the right things, care to reser...”
“For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”
