"The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important."
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"The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting."
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"I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write."
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"When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to [be a musician], because of that fact."
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"I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch."
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"My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being."
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"I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die."
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"The best writing has no lace on its sleeves."
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"Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art."
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"Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses."
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"The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect."
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"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."
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"Read, read read. Read everything."
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"The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't."
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"England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs."
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"Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs."
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"I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service."
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"I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime."
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"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
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"All you can write is what you see."
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