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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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there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmo...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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I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn’t understand ot...more

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I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn’t understand ot...more

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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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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kin...more

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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 a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness.

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The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nigh...more

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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.