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"Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."
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"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."
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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."
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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."
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"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."
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"E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard."
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"You never know what you will write until you write it."
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"But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating."
Family
"Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up."
Writing
"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
Art
"You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were."
Fame
"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road."
Life
"First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard."
Work
"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic."
Mind
"I happen to believe that there is an afterlife."
Life
"And then a great thing in my life was going to India."
Life
"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."
Acting
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