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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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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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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

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