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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timb ...
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ...
I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer's courage.
Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the poi ...
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded sit ...
The sky calls
To the deaf earth. The proverbial disarray
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Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
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That's why I quit and took up writing poetry instead.
It's clean, it's relaxing, it doesn't squirt juice all over
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