"Most novelists write about twisted lives."
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"My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy."
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"I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis."
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"Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall."
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"I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic."
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"I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage."
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"I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction."
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"I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure."
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"When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing."
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"I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash."
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"You know what, I just write what I feel."
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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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"For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it."
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"I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree."
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"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."
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"I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again."
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"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
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"I always want to write something better than the last book."
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"People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense."
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"Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write."
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