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The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

For some it is harder to
write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.