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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is best for them. Luckily, I come from both a writing background - with 'Workaholics' - and I also act in what I've written.

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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

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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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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

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Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

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I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for 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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

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