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When his hand engulfed my much smaller one, I resented the social custom of gloves.
“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”
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“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
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“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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Andrea’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Andrea’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,789 books
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186 friends
565 books
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32 friends
95 books
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110 friends
2,197 books
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41 friends
375 books
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163 friends
363 books
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60 friends
144 books
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51 friends
871 books
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19 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, Thriller, and Young-adult
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