If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
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To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
If you can talk, you can write.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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