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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

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This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

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

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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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