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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

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I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

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Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

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The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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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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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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

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