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Writing Quotes by James M. Cain
- When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not…
- If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
- Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
- I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to…
- I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
- You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.
- If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
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