Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-
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I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it.
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The more we write the less we die.
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Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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Dreams are illustrations.. From the book your soul is writing about you.
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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To attract good fortune, spend a new penny 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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To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature
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To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
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The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing
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