"... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun."
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"Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!"
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"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head."
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"The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself."
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"Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that."
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"Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that."
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"What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible."
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"When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como."
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"It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better."
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"Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!"
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"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."
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"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
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"Writing is its own reward."
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"It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir."
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"Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay."
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"If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon"
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"My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it."
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"I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph."
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"When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare."
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"Don't get it right, just get it written."
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