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“I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.”

Writing Stills Use Too Much Mail Surfing Quills

Author:Oscar Nunez

“I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.”

Writing Book Done Too Much Materials Port

Author:Jack Vance

“It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Writing Different Ends Might Able Young Turns Results Too Much One Day Mountain Quitting Advise Paralyzed Young Writers Wrong Turn Drivel

Author:Alice Munro

“We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.”

Thinking Writing Trying Stuff Worry Too Much Sticks Ships Proportion Editors Envelopes

Author:Garrison Keillor

“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.”