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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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

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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

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Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

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Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

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Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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