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My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

























