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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually…
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Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they…
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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going…
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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time…
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put…
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A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and…
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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's…
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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had…
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about…
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
— Edward de Bono
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I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
— David Bowie
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I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't…
— Jarvis Cocker
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I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then…
— William Zinsser
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
— Ridley Scott
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It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing…
— Mark Nepo
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Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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I want to convey that there is hope? that we're a world that is in turmoil but there is hope. I'm always…
— Catie Curtis
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I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out,…
— Willie Stargell
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