"Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free."
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"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness."
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"I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read."
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"To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard."
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"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."
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"She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste."
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"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
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"I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it."
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"To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity."
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"I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint."
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"You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore."
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
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"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
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"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
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"So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love."
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"The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible."
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"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings."
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"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."
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