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"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."
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"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down."
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"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
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"You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
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"They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams."
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"To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven."
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"Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
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"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night's sky."
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"I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."
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"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
Wisdom
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
Nature
"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."
Faith
"The only shame is to have none."
Wisdom
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
Truth
"We never love a person, but only qualities."
Love
"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."
Nature
"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
Philosophy
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
Wisdom
"What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe."
Philosophy
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