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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.
Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

























