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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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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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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

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What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

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