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I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
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.”
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.
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.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

























