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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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You can stroke people with words.

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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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