"Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority."
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"If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it."
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"I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute."
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"If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write."
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"I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go."
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"If you wish to write, write."
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"In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English."
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"To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something."
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"Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves."
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"Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done."
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"Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light."
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"The ocean is worth writing about just as man is."
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"The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry."
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"Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do."
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"I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?"
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"Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph."
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"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
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"Good writing is good conversation, only more so."
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"What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done."
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"Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can."
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