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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

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This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

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