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"If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."

"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

"A true piece of writing sets you free."
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"A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes."

"We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists."

"Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning."

"Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer's leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur's dance party!"

"Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature."

"Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up."

"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."
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