I've always been writing.
From Max Apple
The story is my favorite form.
Everything always interests me.
Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.
I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.
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