Quotes
- "The secret of good writing is telling the truth." -- Dick Cavett television interview, Aug. 25, 1991
- "It’s not what happens to people on the page; it’s about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind."
- "I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire."
- "Never be sincere — sincerity is the death of writing"
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