In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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What a writer brings to any story is an attitude
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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People once said they were in psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen
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I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.
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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
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In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
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If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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