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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

~Theodore Sturgeon

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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 26th, 1918

Died: May 8th, 1985

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