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If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either


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Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.



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You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.



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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.



She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.



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Time is the only critic.



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If you have to do it, you can do it.



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.

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.





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