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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

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Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

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It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

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If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

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I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.

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Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

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