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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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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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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

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

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

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