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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

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Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

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Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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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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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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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'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean, I went about a decade where I wrote very little poetry and I thought it was because I was doing a weekly blog. And then when we moved, I reconfigured my writing desk. The previous one had had very little space to write by hand. And suddenly, the poetry was gushing!

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Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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