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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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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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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

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Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

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I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

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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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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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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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

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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

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