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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it���s about, but the inner music the words make.

You can���t blame a writer for what the characters say.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I prefer to underwrite, Simple, clear as a country creek.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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All writers are lunatics!

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn���t.

When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can���t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. ���

I haven���t any right to criticize books, and I don���t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can���t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Substitute damn every time you���re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody���s imagination.

A childhood without books ��� that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be ��� if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Sometimes I write better than I can.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

It���s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don���t do it. ��� Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. ��� Don���t take any guff off anybody.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer���by yourself.

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Of course, the writer can impose control; It���s just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called plotting. Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however��� that is called storytelling. Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees.

When you���re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

Writing isn���t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it���s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It���s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings ��� those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page ��� but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect ��� it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.)

(Revising) ���was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained.

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I���m not a very good writer, but I���m an excellent rewriter.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

Writers turn dreams into print.

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That���s the thing about books, they let you travel without moving your feet.

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment.

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.

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