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"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
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"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."
"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."
"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."
"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."
"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."
"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream."
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
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