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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it - don't cheat with it.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
The first draft of anything is shit.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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