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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...more

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

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So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselv...more

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I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God y...more

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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. Fr...more

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I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to ...more

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The truth is that most writers are needy.

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He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposi...more

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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.