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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

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I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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