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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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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

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My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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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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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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