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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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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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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

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I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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