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Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

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You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Aim, Self Knowledge, Want
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Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Book, Books, Like, Reading, Writing

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Creative, Elements, Instead, Skills, Writing

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

Class, Ethics, Important, Manual, Self

With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

Army, Manages, Night, Particular, Possibility, War

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

Goal, Impression, Information, Make, Speak
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