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"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing."
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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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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
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"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."
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"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
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"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."
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"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
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"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."
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"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."
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"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
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"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing."
Writing
"I love comic books and always did as a kid."
Love
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
Personality
"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
Life
"It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more."
Now
"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now."
Evolution
"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
Opportunity
"I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century."
Work
"All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important."
Family
"What genre it falls under is only of interest later."
Interest
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