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There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open…
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Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is…
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book…
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Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage…
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People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the…
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if…
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Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost…
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