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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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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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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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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

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