It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice
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Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
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Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. Its impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. Id like to pin down a few while they are still wet.
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If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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Don't get it right, just get it written
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
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I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out.
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Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat
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