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"It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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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."
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"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
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"It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it."
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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
Life
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Time
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
Day
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
Success
"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
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"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
Life
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
Nature
"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
God
"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
Work
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