"The great artist is the simplifier."
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"I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing."
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"Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors."
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"I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy."
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"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
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"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."
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"I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write."
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"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in."
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"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
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"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."
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"I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love."
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"Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."
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"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
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"I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing"
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"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
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"Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them."
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"We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images."
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"The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation."
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"Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus."
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"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet."
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