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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."
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"Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect."
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
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"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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