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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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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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The way to write well is to live intensely.

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Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

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Writing a poem is discovering.

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Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

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Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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