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Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear.

See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this.

The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.