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People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.