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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

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Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can’t do anything anyway.

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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

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When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people’s weirdness in that way.

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

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