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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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

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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 greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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

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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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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

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For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

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If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.

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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

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