You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
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Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
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So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
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Remember The Poem..
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
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People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
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I am really very grateful for this Award. It is one of the first given to a woman, and to two women at that. When I first started getting work published, I used to have wistful thoughts at the way all important awards were given to men. Women, I used to think, could be as innovative, imaginative and productive as possible - and women were the ones mostly at work in the field of fantasy for children and young adults - but only let a man enter the field, and people instantly regarded what he had to say and what he did as more Important. He got respectful reviews as well as awards, even if what he was doing - which it often was - was imitating the women. But you have changed all that. Thank you for being so enlightened. Women, large-minded, formidable women, have played an almost exclusive part in helping my career. I have hardly ever dealt with a man - at least, when it came to publishing:
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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!
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Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. All those things.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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The man is in his work, read it if you want to know about him.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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A book is not completed till it's read.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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