"You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you."

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If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

— Stephen King