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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.