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• The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
• I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and…
• I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to…
• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having…
• When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task.…
• He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter…
• To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
• Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think…
• Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really…
• A literary achievement of the highest order.
• Fiction is socially meaningful.
• What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

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