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• One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five…
• Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know…
• Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
• The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive…
• I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it…
• Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
• I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker,
• I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
• I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,
• Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been…
• I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough…
• One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something…

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