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Terry McMillan

"I'm a fast writer."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Terry McMillan
"I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other."

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Terry McMillan
"I'm a fast writer."

Writing

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Terry McMillan
"Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical."

Writing

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Terry McMillan
"My stories are character driven."

Character

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Terry McMillan
"It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork."

Time

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Terry McMillan
"There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting."

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Terry McMillan
"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect."

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