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Writing Quotes by Lawrence Block
- One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages…
- The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
- I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
- I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
- If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for…
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