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“Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.”
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“History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.”
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“Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.”
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“I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.”
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“It's a terrible poison, writing.”
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“The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.”
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“I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.”
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“I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.”
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“Good writing is always new.”
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“What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.”
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“I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.”
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“Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.”
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“I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.”
