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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

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Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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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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Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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