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Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.


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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.



Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.



In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.



The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.



The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.

The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.



The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.



Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.



When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.



At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.



I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.





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I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.



The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

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As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.

As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.



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– Diana: “Christina said the strangest thing.” – Lyon: “Of course she did.



Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.



Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.



[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.





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