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  1. Norman Mailer _ The Spooky Art: Thoughts on

    Craft protects one from facing endless expanding realities-the terror, let us say, of losing your novel in the depths of philosophical insights you are not ready to live with.
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  2. Norman Mailer _ The Spooky Art: Thoughts on

    More sensitive than others in the beginning, we have to develop the will, the stamina, the determination, and the insensitivity to take critical abuse. A good writer, therefore, does well to see himself as a strong, weak person, full of brave timidity, sensitive and insensitive.
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  3. Norman Mailer _ The Spooky Art: Thoughts on

    Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.
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  4. Norman Mailer _ The Spooky Art: Thoughts on

    Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers' lives.
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  5. Norman Mailer _ The Spooky Art: Thoughts on

    Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don't enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively-don't go into your protagonist's thoughts until you have something to say about his or her inner life that is more interesting than the reader's suppositions.
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