Tom Clancy Quotes About Writing
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If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.
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I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
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You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.
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Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
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Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
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Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
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Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
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Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
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