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• Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
• The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
• For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing…
• The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will…
• I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
• Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on…
• I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I…
• If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I…
• You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
• Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

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