I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.

Max Apple

Categorized in : You People Simple Events

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

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If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.

nap story feel better

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

job things you things-happen

I've always been writing.

been always writing

The story is my favorite form.

favorite story form

Everything always interests me.

interests everything me always

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

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I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

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A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

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I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

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I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

me time love life

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

sentence story hard work

As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.

live sports world ideas

As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.

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