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It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, wa...more

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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

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Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

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The gotta, as in: “I think I’ll stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out.” Even though the guy who says i...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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For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.