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If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
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.

























