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Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something is good, good within your own limits, and those parts make life worth living. — Chloe Thurlow Katie in Love

Screenwriting is made of brevity. — A.D. Posey

Literature is pure artifice, but great literature manages to disguise it and mediocre literature betrays it. — Mario Vargas Llosa Letters to a...

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you...

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... {"Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read"}

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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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