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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

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A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

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Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

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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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LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

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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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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

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