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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 aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
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.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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.
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.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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.
It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.
I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

























