“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
― Requiem for a Nun
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― The Wild Palms
― The Wild Palms
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