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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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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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The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes

We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

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