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- Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist…
- When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know…
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
- A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
- I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
- The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of…
- there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who…
- You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
- I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a…
- I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they…
- You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last…
- Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as…
- But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by…
- You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
- You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make…
- There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
- Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot…
- Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no…
- People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those…
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