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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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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 far apart.

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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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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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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

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We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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