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“I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.”

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Richard North Patterson is a renowned American fiction writer, born on February 22, 1947. His works span a variety of themes including law, politics, and family relationships, and have garnered a wide readership. more

“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.”

World Way Want Firsts Looks Ideas Faces Language Loses Secret Higher Discipline Exercise Letting Go Flow Impulse Aspiration Messengers Losing Yourself Carrier

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.”

Thinking Kind States Moments Happens Loss Poet Higher Periods Pages Access Combination Novelists Phrases Surprising Paragraph Rapture Best Moments

Author:Don DeLillo

“I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.”

Thinking World Said Done Culture Language Fiction Havens Cultures Of The World

Author:Don DeLillo

“I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.”

Mind Felt Imagination Doors Pressure Of My Mind

Author:J. G. Ballard

“But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.”

Writing Soul Successful Good Things Not Sure

Author:J. G. Ballard

“I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.”

Three Hours Walks Morning Four Late Afternoon Gin Back In Time Gin And Tonic

Author:J. G. Ballard

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