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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Greater pleasure Come across An author One enjoy
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Now I believe that writing is somewhat a risky trade out there.

I believe Writing Risky trade Out there
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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

The art Writing Complication Human soul
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The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

The ending Nearer You think Already written
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I believe what I write to be the truth,every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Believe The truth Every man Indifferent
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you are every thing i want to write in a poem, like this when my heart will not hush a storm bounds in bloodlines with blue ink and in oxygen carrying natal scents of you

You are Every thing My heart Storm bounds
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I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Keep From crying The tears Won't come
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Writing a poem involves serendipitous discovery.

Writing A poem Involves Serendipitous discovery
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The night writes deeply into me.i'm forbidden to condemn life.

The light Write deeply I'm forbidden Condemn life
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Making people imagine things is part of the work of a writer.
Making people Imagine things Work Writer
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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

A writer Automatically Suspicious character
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I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Bad person Write Good book Us better
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing Saved me The sin Inconvenience
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world

Heart Always breaking Through Broken window
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Writing poems Celebrating The world Committed suicide
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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Write Character Hate Fear
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Sometimes I wish Writing Drawing
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Illitrate Century Read Write
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A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Person's tragedy Make up Entire life Story carves
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Age Given Letter-writing Important
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

I Retiring Writers Never
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Dangerous game Write A song A person
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My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.

Advice Wait Struck Idea
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Writers Job Tell Truth
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

Not here Ignorant people Happy Write
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More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

Write about I know The experiences My life
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The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

The pen Written word Great deal Power
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I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

Writing songs Hope Get behind My feeling
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It is essential for social and human development. The ability to read and write well, provides individuals with skills and empowers them to transform their lives.

Essential Social Human development Ability
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I write because I want to have more than one life.

I write Want to Have more One life
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Beautiful feeling After writing A poem Whole better
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You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.

You Story Inside Waiting
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To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Write Something Risk Fool
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

I'm writing I know I'm doing Was born
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Loved Words Sing Speak
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Writing is Thinking More than Living
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You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

Just write Put things.a drawer Warm sun Appreciation
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Write Gift God Help
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Almost Good Writing Begins
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The task A writer To solve The problem
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

We Destroy What Written
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

No way Writing well Easily
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Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Writers Rarely Best Critics
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Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Writing Combination Intangible creative Fantasy
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed
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We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.

We Able Witness Eulogy
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To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

To write Convert The real Into words
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If you told me two years ago that Forbes would write an article about me, I would’ve slapped you in the elbow and told you to get out of my apartment.

Years ago Forbes Write About me
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The internet has this hilarious thing where if you have huge news to announce, the post does a lot better if you write it like you don’t care.

Internet Hilarious Thing Huge news
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