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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

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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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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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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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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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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

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We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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