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- I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when…
- The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings…
- The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
- The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing…
- Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories…
- The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now…
- He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls,…
- Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from…
- But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
- I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If…
- When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the…
- The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words…
- Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
- I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that…
- We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the…
- Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more…
- That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the…
- Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the…
- Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless…
- Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them…
- When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This…
- Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies.…
- Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still…
- The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man…
- A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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