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“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
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“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
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