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  • My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes
  • How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Past Quotes
  • 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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Brother Quotes , Writing Quotes