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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
