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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
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“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
“But you can go on thinking and imagining forever further and stop at no decisions to pick up a bag for the thinkings. Turn your thinking into your work, your thoughts a book, in sieges.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”
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Brad’s 2025 Year in Books
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