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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

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Anne Tyler

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

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How plotless real life was!

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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

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. . . if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.

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For me, writing something down was the only road out. . . I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.

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