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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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What do you have to write about? You’re not oppressed! You’re not gay!
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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What you’re trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You’re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate and I eliminate the possibility of ever finishing.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
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Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration’s artful aid.
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Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
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Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.
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Without a pen I feel naked, but it’s writing that is my exhibitionism.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow…
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