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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
"To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while."
"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"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."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
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"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."
"It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does."
"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
"There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men."
"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."
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