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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

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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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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

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

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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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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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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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