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“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
“If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rulea great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persist...”
“If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how fa...”
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself ...”
“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
“Writing is a delicious agony.”
“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
“Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.”
“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard...”
“Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...”
“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”
“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
“They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.”
“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
“The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.”
“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many chara...”
“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”
