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I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels--Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig--invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind.
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Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.
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A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.
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Good writers are visible just behind their words.
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You are writing for yourself.
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If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
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The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.
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All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.
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Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.
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Be a writer. Write things down.
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I've never heard anybody smile.
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If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.
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Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
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Good writing is lean and confident.
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You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into entertainment.
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