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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
- Kept
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
- Bland
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- Nov 07, 2020
You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
- Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
- Los Angeles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
- Dimension
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020