“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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