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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
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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 politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
Politics
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
Creativity
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
History
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
Change
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Evil
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
Power
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
Marriage
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
Strength
"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt
"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
Peace
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