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“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."
(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”
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(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”
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“What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.”
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“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
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“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
― Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
― Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
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