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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.


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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.


Natalie Goldberg
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
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It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
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We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!


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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.


Wayne Dyer
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No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
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I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
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Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
Esther Williams
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice Baring
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You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.
Tom Irwin
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
Alan Dean Foster
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
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Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.
Adam McKay
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