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All writers have their own pet commandments.
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I have come to love you in spite ofDo I want to be loved in spite of? ... Does anyone? — Darin Strauss
The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
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The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts.
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Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.
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His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.
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Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
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Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
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My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
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It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
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The sky had dropped a curtain on the sun.
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What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.
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Diminish the influence of fate
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Self-hate is rarely unconditional.
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Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.
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A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.
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I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
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I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
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When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
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Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
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My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
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I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.
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Your muscles can tense with hope.
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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
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My training and my inclination is to invent.
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If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
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Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.
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Things don't go away. They become you.
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The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
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Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
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My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
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I'm really wary of self-help books.
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I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
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Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
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Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
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The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
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What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?
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Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.
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