"You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again."
"Every sentence raises a problem, and essentially what you’re doing is connecting one sentence to the next."
"I try to do at least three pages a day. Some days you don’t, but without some kind of quota, I think you’re fooling yourself.”
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too."
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"Writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument; it requires constant practice and honing of skills."
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"Plan for the long haul. If you’re extremely talented and lucky, you’ll be famous in a few years. Most of us, including me, are neither that talented nor lucky."
"If you want to be a writer, then write. Don’t think about it, do it. Every writing experience is a learning process. The more you do it, the better you will get."
"You just have to get started. You just put something down. Because nothing is more terrifying than the blank page."
