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Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed Picture Quote #1

The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience Picture Quote #1

You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn’t mean you don’t use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted. Nothing is ever wasted. If it has been thought through and written, it is still there, in every word which does not mention it Picture Quote #1

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you’re going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages Picture Quote #1

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind Picture Quote #1

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport Picture Quote #1

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I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me Picture Quote #1

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters Picture Quote #1

All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don’t just talk about it. Don’t just read and think about it. Do it Picture Quote #1

When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It’s not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It’s more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort Picture Quote #1

In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what’s asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else Picture Quote #1

A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts Picture Quote #1

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The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals... we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes Picture Quote #1

Talk isn’t work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn’t have in the morning Picture Quote #1

There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there Picture Quote #1

How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already Picture Quote #1

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change Picture Quote #1

Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it’s about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human Picture Quote #1

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The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now Picture Quote #1

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn Picture Quote #1

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I’m paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself Picture Quote #1

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader Picture Quote #1

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since Picture Quote #1

I’m not such an artist type that I can’t handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don’t talk about art Picture Quote #1

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I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind Picture Quote #1

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don’t seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen Picture Quote #1

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun Picture Quote #1

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly Picture Quote #1

I don’t write from dreams because I don’t remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages Picture Quote #1

I don’t do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter Picture Quote #1

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Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed (Pages Quotes) The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience (Pages Quotes) You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn’t mean you don’t use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted. Nothing is ever wasted. If it has been thought through and written, it is still there, in every word which does not mention it (Pages Quotes) An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you’re going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages (Pages Quotes) Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind (Pages Quotes) If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport (Pages Quotes) I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me (Pages Quotes) I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters (Pages Quotes) All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don’t just talk about it. Don’t just read and think about it. Do it (Pages Quotes) When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It’s not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It’s more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort (Pages Quotes) In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what’s asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else (Pages Quotes) A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts (Pages Quotes) The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals... we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes (Pages Quotes) Talk isn’t work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn’t have in the morning (Pages Quotes) There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there (Pages Quotes) How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already (Pages Quotes) The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change (Pages Quotes) Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it’s about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human (Pages Quotes) The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now (Pages Quotes) Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn (Pages Quotes) I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I’m paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself (Pages Quotes) Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader (Pages Quotes) I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since (Pages Quotes) I’m not such an artist type that I can’t handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don’t talk about art (Pages Quotes) I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind (Pages Quotes) I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don’t seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen (Pages Quotes) I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun (Pages Quotes) Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly (Pages Quotes) I don’t write from dreams because I don’t remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages (Pages Quotes) I don’t do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter (Pages Quotes)

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