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Quotation of the Day for February 26, 2012



"Knowing how seriously aspiring writers of fiction can take advice from more established writers of fiction, I'm generally reluctant to say more than: If you wish to learn to write fiction, it helps if you've read a lot of it before you begin to try. And that in any case, you'll likely need to spend a lot of time discovering how to try, and then a lot more time trying. I don't really remember anything very specific about learning to drive, other than a neat trick for parallel parking, and learning to write fiction is a lot like that (except for no terrified instructor in the passenger seat, though in a way we each provide one of those as well)."

- William Gibson, from the introduction to his 2012 essay collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor.



Submitted by: Terry Labach
Feb. 23, 2012

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