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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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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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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

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The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

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I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

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

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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