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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
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