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“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”
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“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
Don’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Don’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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111 friends
77 books
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332 books
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32 books
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54 books
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142 friends
315 books
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181 friends
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