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“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations...”
“...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in f...”
“And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.”
“I write with all my heart”
“A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal."-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337”
“Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.”
“Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.”
“Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.”
“...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.”
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
“Writing is the supreme solace.”
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening with...”
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.”
“Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.”
“And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.”
“As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall a...”
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
“When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.”
“I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.”
“Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!”
