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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.

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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.

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