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"I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."
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"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."
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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."
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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."
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"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
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"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
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"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
Relationship
"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
Books
"When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level."
Work
"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
Poetry
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
Challenge
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
Technology
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
Heroism
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
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