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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

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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 really didn't think about song writing.

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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

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We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

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A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

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The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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