Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.John Irving
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Life is serious, but art is fun.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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The inshore lifeboat was very busy with 39 jobs, and the all-weather lifeboat had 11.
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