Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.
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When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
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Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
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Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like th...
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? Peopl...
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunsh...
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So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
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The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in t...
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You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your b...
