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"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
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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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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."
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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."
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"Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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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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"I don't have any style."
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"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
Writing
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
Society
"I think all writing is done through memory."
Memory
"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."
Home
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
Creativity
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
Censorship
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
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