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People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

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The word impossible is not French.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

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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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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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