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A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relatio...

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At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

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Power and money Like Pooh Bear and honey Stick fast.

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This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

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Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.

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Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

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...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.

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Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.

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For most digital-age writers, writing rewriting. We grope, cut, block, paste, and twitch, panning for gold onscreen by deleting bucketloads of crap. Our analog ancestors had to polish every line mentally before hammering it out mechanically. Rewrites...

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Think larger. Redraw what is possible.

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Holly rubs her temples. “Are we talking ... vampires?” Arkady groans. “On, the V-word! Here it comes again.

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On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

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A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synaesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading bugger up your mind, jeopardise your relationshi...

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And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

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Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth” – I rap my knuckles on the table – “you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.

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