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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

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Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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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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