<bq author="J.D. Salinger" source="Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Raise-High-Roof-Carpenters-Seymour/dp/0316766941/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0117574-1121239?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217073503&sr=8-1" caption="From 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction'">If only you'd remember before ever you sit down to write that you've been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart's choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself.</bq> <n>Citation found in <a href="http://www.nplusonemag.com/friends" source="n+1" author="Kevin Kopelson">Friend's: Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey</a>.</n>