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My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
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Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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Oh, write of me, not ''Died in bitter pains,'' but ''Emigrated to another star!''
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