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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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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 illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."
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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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"A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love."
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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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."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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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
Experience
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
Art
"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame
"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want
"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Man
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent
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