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“The books that trusted you most maybe the ones you love best.”

“No subject is so good that it can redeem indifferent writing.”

“It takes a skillful writer to make the ordinary motion of time engaging.”

“A writer’s world is full of parallel universes.”

“You don’t have to set aside inviolate chunks of time to think.”

“Squander your material. Don’t ration it saving the best for last. You don’t know what the best is. Or the last.

You can only run out of material if you haven’t been thinking. Or noticing.”

“Flow is something the reader experiences- not the writer.”

“You can’t fix a cliché by using it ironically.”

“You’ll never run out of noticings. And there are more than enough sentences to let a few go.”

“Being a writer is an act of perpetual self authorization.”

“Genres are merely outlines by another name.”

“Every word is optional until it proves to be essential.”

“Why short sentences? They’ll sound strange for a while until you can hear what they’re capable of.”

“Short sentences aren’t hard to make. The difficulty is forcing yourself to keep them short.”

“Part of the struggle in learning to write is learning to ignore what isn’t useful to you.”