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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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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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We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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