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If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable li...more

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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

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Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, ...more

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Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

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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 ...more

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Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up ...more

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back toget...more

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Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?