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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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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