You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
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How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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