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Goodreads asked Max Reif:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Max Reif Various takes on a quote from, I think Schopenhauer: "Remove the watchers from the gates of intelligence!" If you learn to write uncensored from your true feelings...whatever your mind thinks about it...you'll open up a great reservoir of material! I keep in mind a related paragraph from Allen Ginsberg, about something Kerouac taught him: you don't have to SHOW people everything you write! There's always going to be stuff you might not want to share, but you'll never get to all the stuff you DO want to share unless you write down EVERYTHING!

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