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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Sean's a great, great writer."
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"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."
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"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
Politics
"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."
Trust
"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."
Writing
"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
People
"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."
Experience
"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
Entertainment
"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
Poetry
"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
Authenticity
"There never was a war that was not inward."
War
"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."
Doubt
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