Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
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Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
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