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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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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

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

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

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

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

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

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

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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