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| Quote for category - writing and writers |
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone,
uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they
did not.
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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't
because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present
itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer
and I take up my pen to write.
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It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book
quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to
give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and
boxers versus briefs.
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the
luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the
difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering
paragraph.
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