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(Contd. from page 1...)I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Vigorous writing is concise.