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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dul...more

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Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous th...more

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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

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Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...more

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When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself...more

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take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

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He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

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Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.

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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

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Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out

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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

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the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of t...more