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“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“What success does to you. It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair.”
― Run to Daylight!
― Run to Daylight!
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story . . . . to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose),
someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s
all. I’m not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as
I see them.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s
all. I’m not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as
I see them.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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