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If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

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• Writing

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

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• Writing

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

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• Writing

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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• Life

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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• Inspirational

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

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• Humor

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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• Books

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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• Writing

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

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• Writing

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

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• Writing

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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• Books

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

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• Life