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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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