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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."
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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."
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"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."
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"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."
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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."
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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."
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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."
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"A true piece of writing sets you free."
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"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
Research
"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."
Work
"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."
Ability
"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."
Joy
"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."
Writing
"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."
Hope
"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
Friendship
"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."
Battle
"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."
Want
"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
People
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