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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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

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Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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Grammar is the analysis of language.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.

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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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