"For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory."
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"Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone."
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"I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that."
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"There are very few innocent sentences in writing."
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"I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting."
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"In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it’s mediated by a kind of text - there’s an electricity about it."
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"I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone."
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"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
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"Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it."
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"I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel."
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"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK."
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"My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails."
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"One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most."
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"Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me."
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"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life."
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"Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics."
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"I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had."
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"I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money."
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"You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them."
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"I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you."
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