"To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man."
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"Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing."
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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."
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"It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally."
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"The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow."
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"I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same."
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"Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself "Why?" afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."
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"I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio."
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"I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it."
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"Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone."
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"A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing."
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"My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once."
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"When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on."
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"If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?"
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"Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes."
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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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"I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you."
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"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
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"Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper."
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"No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land."
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