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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Artist Listen Critics Reviews
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Never Think Something Read
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
Writer Teach Basest Afraid
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

Existed Written Hemingway
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Board Honor Pride Decency
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The

Writer Mother Hesitate Grecian Urn
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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

Read Classics Bad
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Conversation Cry Easily Movie
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

American American Film American Writers Directors
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Write Speak Author Child
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Audience Direct Film Hear
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Against Any Born Conspiracy
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
Good Good Writer Honest Honest Man
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Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

Appear Ever Factor Forget
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
Essays Like Theory Writing
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

Buddies Like Sitting Writing
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Brain Reality Check
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None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

Anybody Feelings Hurt None
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Like Life
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He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

Think Write Talent
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Area Life Made Making
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

About Anything Bizarre Characters
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

About Anything Believe Know
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

About Am Back Because
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

About After Ask Because
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

About American American Dream Dream
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

About Know Must Passion
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

About Copy Done First
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

About Anybody Basically Caught
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Am Artist Being Both
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I write music every day
Day Every EveryDay IWrite
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Choice Chance Free History
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Defense Largely Our Our Time
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Call Historians History Like
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

Certain CertainWay Chance Explore
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Am IAm Kind Other
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Actual Am Any AnyGivenMoment
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Am Doing Easy EasyThing
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Amount Details Documentation Fascinating
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

Always Autobiography Biography Even
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

About Beginning Business Define
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