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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
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All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
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All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
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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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