I Don't Like To Talk About Work

If You Find Yourself Imitating Another Writer, That Doesn't Have To Be A Bad Thing, Especially If You Are A Young Or A New Writer. However, You Should Be Conscious Of Exactly How You Are Imitating Him - Word Choice, Sentence Structure, Motifs? - And Think About Why You're Doing It.

You Hold Onto What You Have; You Do Not Give It Up Easily, Even When You Know It Is Poisoning You.

If You Want Something, You Don't Wait For The World To Deal It Out For You. You Take It.

In The Netherlands I Read The First Chapter Of Exquisite Corpse To An Audience That Laughed In All The Places I Thought Were Funny - An Experience I've Never Had In America!

Delete Nothing. Move Nothing. Change Nothing. Learn Everything.