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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”