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"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
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"The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise and wandering, I have begun the next leg of my journey; I have brought the spirit of the traveler home."
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"If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart."
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"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."
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"No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception."
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"The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right."
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"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
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"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."
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"When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan."
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"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."
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"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Time
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
Day
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
Day
"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
Life
"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
Literature
"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
Innocence
"All good art is an indiscretion."
Art
"Ignorance of mortality is a comfort."
Philosophy
"I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
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