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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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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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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
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By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
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