It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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