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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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

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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.

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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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