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"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."
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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."
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"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."
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"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."
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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."
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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."
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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."
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"A true piece of writing sets you free."
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"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."
Food
"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
Communication
"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."
People
"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
Writing
"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
Writing
"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."
Moon
"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
Diplomacy
"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
Life
"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
Man
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
Nature
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