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If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

It was darker than a carload of assholes.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,

You cannot write well without data.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.