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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
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"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down."
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"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
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"You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
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"They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams."
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"To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven."
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"Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
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"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night's sky."
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"I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
Society
"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
Government
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
Poetry
"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."
Being
"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."
Education
"There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't."
Man
"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."
Art
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
Mind
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
Religion
"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
Marriage
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