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"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
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"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."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
"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."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
"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."
"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."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
"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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"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."
"Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere."
"He is polite, the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he's about to do."
"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."
"This is a landscape of dreams cemented in the past, of hopes gone cold, of girls and boys for rent in officially empty tower blocks, where none is truly so."
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