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I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve... →
I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and... →
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing... →
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not... →
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to... →
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a... →
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide, Why do I... →
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