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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

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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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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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

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