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Writing Quotes by Tom Clancy
- The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
- Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
- If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
- Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
- Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a…
- You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A…
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