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“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)”
― John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

“Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more.”
― Scott B. Smith, A Simple Plan

“Boys never become men, they become skeletons and skulls.”
― Phoebe Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art