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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
-Carlos Fuentes
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I Don't Think Any Good Book Is

Carlos Fuentes
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. they just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.
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"only write what you know" is very good advice. i do my best to stick to it. i wrote about gods and dreams and america because i knew about them. and i wrote about what it's like to wander into faerie because i knew about that. i wrote about living underneath london because i knew about that too. and i put people into the stories because i knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them.
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I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.
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The books in mo and meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. there where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. books on the tv set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. they welcomed meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. and sometimes you fall over them.
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The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. they sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. it is not good for the little books. and really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. in the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.
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Read this and thought of you: through joy and through sorrow, i wrote. through hunger and through thirst, i wrote. through good report and through ill report, i wrote. through sunshine and through moonshine, i wrote. what i wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ edgar allen poe
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