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I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

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Rose Tremain

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Existential, Existentialism, Novel, Panic, Process, Rewriting
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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know. ' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

Boring, Forget, Seek, Understanding, World, Writing

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

Draft, Firsts, Good, Stuff, Writing

When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.

Data, Dream, Gathering, Hard, Spend, Writing

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

Cinema, Details, Economic, Learn, People, Writing
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