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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

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

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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

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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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