Its Easy To Know What You Want

This Fact Was Something I Also Learned From This First Novel That I Needed Personal Experience To Invent, To Fantasize, To Create Fiction, But At The Same Time I Needed Some Distance, Some Perspective On This Experience In Order To Feel Free Enough To Manipulate It And To Transform It Into Fiction. If The Experience Is Very Close, I Feel Inhibited. I Have Never Been Able To Write Fiction About Something That Has Happened To Me Recently. If The Closeness Of The Real Reality, Of Living Reality, Is To Have A Persuasive Effect On My Imagination, I Need A Distance, A Distance In Time And In Space.

The Secret To A Masterpiece Is 10 Percent Inspiration And 90 Percent Perspiration.

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You Cannot Teach Creativity - How To Become A Good Writer. But You Can Help A Young Writer Discover Within Himself What Kind Of Writer He Would Like To Be.

I Write Because I'm Unhappy. I Write Because It's A Way Of Fighting Unhappiness.