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I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

























