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- Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest…
- To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
- Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)
- It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
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