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"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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"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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"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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"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
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"You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander."
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"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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"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."
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"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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"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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"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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"I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object."
Sex
"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
Age
"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
Creativity
"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate."
Death
"I come from a family of great readers and storytellers."
Family
"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power."
Power
"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
Film
"The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men."
Man
"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."
Nature
"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
College
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