"Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop."
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"Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it."
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"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."
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"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
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"If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar"
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"Sin writes histories, goodness is silent."
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"Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write."
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"Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up."
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"Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable."
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"Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available."
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"Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the same time, it is exciting. So it is both difficult and easy. What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. I have said in the kind of exaggerated manner of writers and prophets that writing, for me, is like receiving a term of imprisonment-you know that's what you're in for, for whatever time it takes."
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"I hate commas in the wrong places."
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"Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry"
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"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
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"I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about."
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"The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
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"A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."
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"The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines."
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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."
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"Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you."
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