I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

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