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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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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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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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

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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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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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