Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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