” You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it’s all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. “
” You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. “
” Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don’t join writer’s clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing’s changed. “
” We’re basically after Joe’s beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be. “
” The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There’s always something better to do, like I’ve got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There’s always something better to do. Going to a writer’s club? “
” In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. “
” I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you’re going to throw away. “
” And that’s another piece of advice I’ll give junior writers, when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. “
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