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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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

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I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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