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To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.

It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch__ll in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

I swooned again _ I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of 'Success.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence of rage, or reading Naipaul might convince you to seize the ego that so wants to be loved, drag it outside, put it up against a wall, and shoot it.

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It__ creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

How do I get inspired? Life.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

I couldn__ admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck __m, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they__e written, they write some more.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.