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My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

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I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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You never get over the fear of writing.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

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