"Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs."
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"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now."
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"I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about."
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"Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten."
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"Having books published is very destructive to writing."
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"I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)"
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"The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death."
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"The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness."
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"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
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"You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight."
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"I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you"
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"My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing."
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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 nerves."
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"I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird."
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"I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow."
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"Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new."
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"I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me."
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"Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome."
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"install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time."
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"I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made."
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