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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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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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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

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Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

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