The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college.. I did other things.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.
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I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later, or
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Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time I did it, I can't remember even taking any notice of it.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?
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For me, writing [was] a question of survival..I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
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Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.
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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
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Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
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Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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Why am I compelled to write?.. Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger.. To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit.. Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy. I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me? And I really, really don't.
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Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it
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My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
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A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as<br/>you play with outrage and wonder, details and gossip, language and dreams, plots and subplots, perceptions and small epiphanies.
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Women with clean houses do not have finished books.
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