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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. Ernest Hemingway

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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dean Koontz

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Andrew

"catch you on the flip side"

emperor, those are 2 awesome and accurate quotes.

There's another truism often kicked around: "Write what you know." I thought I'd mention it, because it's shite! A good reply to that phrase that I've heard, is "Write what you know, and you'll never learn anything."

"Write what you can learn."

And keep that bullshit detector handy - you'll find that it comes in handy for far more than just writing!

Cheers, Anthony

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Pleasure AND pain... I hear that! But I trod along anyway... Great quotes!

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