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Writing Quotes

"Because, if one is writing novels today, fieldwork is more and more a lost art. Take all the time you need, sit down with people, and dig deep. Galaxies may be infinitesimal, but no detail is too small."

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."

"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer"

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat"

"Write as if you're trying to explain things to a very smart version of yourself."

"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row."

"The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature"

"When you’re writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can’t just be out of the air"

"The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life."

"The first draft of anything is shit"

"I thought that words and books and pens are more powerful than guns."

"Writers write to influence their readers"

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty"

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