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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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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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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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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

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