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I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, Let your characters grow. Up. And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom....

1. Write every day2. Write what interests you.3. Write for the child inside of you. {Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.}4. Write with honest emotion5. Be careful of being facile6. Be wary...

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and...

Writing is defined as a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.

It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet.

You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows. I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown...

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'. — David Mitchell Black Swan Green

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

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

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...

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

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

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