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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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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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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

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