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"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase."
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"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."
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"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
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"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."
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"I'm very involved in the writing on every level."
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"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
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"I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait."
Writing
"Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it."
Writing
"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
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"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."
Writing
"I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe."
Love
"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade."
Writing
"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
Books
"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."
Writing
"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
Books
"Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it."
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