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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own.

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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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