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The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. The word itself has another color.

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

It���s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word.

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal.

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Writing is a calling, not a choice.

Write what should not be forgotten.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

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You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what���s burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul?

So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Every secret of a writer���s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. 

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Fiction is like a spider���s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Outwardly, what is simpler than to write books? Outwardly, what obstacles are there for a woman rather than for a man? Inwardly, I think, the case is very different. She has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against.

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it���s about, but the inner music the words make.

You can���t blame a writer for what the characters say.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I prefer to underwrite, Simple, clear as a country creek.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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All writers are lunatics!

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn���t.

When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can���t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. ���

I haven���t any right to criticize books, and I don���t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can���t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Substitute damn every time you���re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody���s imagination.

A childhood without books ��� that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be ��� if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Sometimes I write better than I can.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

It���s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

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.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don���t do it. ��� Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. ��� Don���t take any guff off anybody.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer���by yourself.

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