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"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I ..."

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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

"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."

"In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get m..."

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."

"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"