My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises the baby makes so later I can ask him what he meant
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever h
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery.
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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
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I've writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now Ijust have to fill in the rest.
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch digging, mountain climbing, treadmill and childbirth.. But amusing Never.
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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
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