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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."
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"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."
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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."
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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."
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"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."
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"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
Creativity
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
Courage
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
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