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Everyday people don't understand what he did for everybody and anybody who wore a Twins jersey.

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Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

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A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

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The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

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