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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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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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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

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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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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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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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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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