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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.  
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to hav...  
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your head...  
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assim...  
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to p...  
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason w...  
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's on...  
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges w...  
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themse...  
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.