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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. Antonin Artaud
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am. Sylvester Stallone
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands. Anne Tyler
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them. Italo Calvino
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written."
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Brautigan quote: "I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word..."
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. Richard Brautigan
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the... Haruki Murakami
John Irving quote: "the demands of writing and of real life are not always..."
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. John Irving
Faith, coming from the lack of faith: as much as the faith in oneself is demolished, as much the intoxicating faith in the salvation becomes strong and the desperate need to be save grows. The savior is that much great, as you’re small, insignificant and unworthy. Anri Begrson writes: “It’s not true that faith can move mountains. On the contrary, the main thing in faith is the ability not to notice anything, even the moving of the mountain in front of you. It’s like a hermetic screen, fully... Amos Oz
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i. e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e. g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup... David Foster Wallace
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless... Naomi Wolf
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,?"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Goldman quote: "I write out of revenge."
I write out of revenge. William Goldman
It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice. Natalie Goldberg
Mark Twain quote: "One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like..."
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. Mark Twain

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