"I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well."
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"Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible"
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"Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down."
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"There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it."
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"Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away."
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"If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom."
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"You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by."
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"A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur."
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"Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in."
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"I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen."
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"I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?"
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"Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs."
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"You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!"
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"I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love."
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"Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there."
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"He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer."
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"Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell."
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"There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing."
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"I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication."
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"Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook."
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