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I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and tra...

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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...

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I want to paint the way a bird sings.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the f...

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...But...to sing,to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,with a voice that stirs and an ey...

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I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

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Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will ...

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I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place...

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A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and t...

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Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader....

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I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im...

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Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.

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Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany's