"In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth."
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"Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times."
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"The author: an imaginary person who writes real books."
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"In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty."
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"But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended."
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"I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere."
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"I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective."
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"You write the script, and then you just go over it 400 times and make all the jokes better. It really is true. That's essentially the way it works."
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"I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly."
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"I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me."
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"All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write."
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"I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It's exciting and somewhat daunting. You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together - all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It's as if I've turned into summer itself."
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"There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing."
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"Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars."
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"It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning - I've based my entire career off of just trying to do that for them - but I always kind of forget that my real life friends can hear my music and they can watch my interviews if they want and that's when I get kind of like- "oh..." - I don't necessarily sit down and talk to my friends about all the things that I write my music about, because it's easier for me to write music than to sit and talk to my friends about it sometimes- it's almost like writing in a diary."
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"When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end."
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"My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat."
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"A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover."
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"I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong."
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"Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same."
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