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"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
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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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"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 have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
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"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
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"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."
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"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."
Stress
"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
Experience
"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
Evil
"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."
Life
"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."
Now
"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."
Business
"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."
God
"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
Writing
"The Army was my bread and butter."
Army
"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."
Fortune
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