Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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The past is never dead. It's not even past.

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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