"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken."
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"I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives."
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"I have a writing addiction."
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"Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then."
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"Much of songwriting is simply a mystery."
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"I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write."
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"Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try."
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"Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps."
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"I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
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"The best writing is certainly when you are in love"
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"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
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"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time)."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
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"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
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"Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing."
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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
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"It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse."
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"Beware of advice-even this."
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"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions."
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"Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color."
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