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"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
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"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down."
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"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
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"You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
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"They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams."
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"To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven."
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"Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
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"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night's sky."
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"I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
Force
"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
Agreement
"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
Strategy
"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
Politics
"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
Art
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
Politics
"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
Time
"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
Politics
"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
Time
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
Politics
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