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"We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are."
"The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to, surely one can only write the book that is there to be written."
"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
"To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while."
"There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
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"Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor."
"The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don't ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it."
"The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one."
"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."
"Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct."
"The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire."
"A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel."
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