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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
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“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Death in the Afternoon
― Death in the Afternoon
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