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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
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The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.
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Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.
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Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.
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He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
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..there was a certain comfort in surrender.
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I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.