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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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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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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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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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I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

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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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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

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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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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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