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Goodreads asked Ray McCarthy:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Ray McCarthy Keep writing. Avoid TV and Cinema, too visual. Understand your genre intimately but read widely outside of it.
Make sure you learn the rules of grammar and novel construction before you break them. Sometimes you need to break them, you need to know that's what you are doing.

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