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"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
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"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."
Fact
"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
Character
"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
Woman
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."
Writing
"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."
Food
"My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era."
War
"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."
Woman
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