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A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.
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Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.


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Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.


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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.


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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.


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I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.
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In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.


Norman Mailer
There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.
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I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.
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What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.


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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
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It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
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I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.
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I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.


Boris Johnson
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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