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In a way, I was safe writing

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

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I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

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