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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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The only kind of writing is rewriting.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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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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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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