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“Nothing mattered … but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.”
In Memory: “The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.“
“Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.”
“The secret to writing is writing. It’s only a secret to people who don’t want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.”
“I’m always most interested in writing about things that I don’t understand.”
“You don’t think when you play music… It is the same for me when the writing is going really well…”
10 Rules of Writing, No. 8: “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep…”
“Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun… In baseball you only get three swings and you’re out. In rewriting, you get… “
