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* 1. ". . . You need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write."

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* 2. "The first draft of everything is shit."

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* 3. “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

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* 4. "You have to be in it for the long haul. Sometimes it takes a lot longer than you thought, but cream rises to the top. It may not rise in the way you want, but it will get there."

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* 5. "Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."

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* 6. ". . . everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

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* 7. "Writing is so solitary, and it takes us to deep emotional places. It should. If it’s not taking you to such places, you’re not working hard enough."

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* 8. “The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all.”

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* 9. "The only possible advice is to keep on writing, to continue and continue to write."

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* 10. "Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul."

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