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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology
"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
Solitude
"Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' Then he added, 'Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish wonderful though he is."
Religion
"I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
Productivity
"Wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg."
Spiritual
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Motivation
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Courage
"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
Creativity
"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."
Creativity
"Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine."
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