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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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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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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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