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• Find something only you can say
• It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try…
• If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
• Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
• Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
• I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us…
• What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest…
• What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have…
• The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
• The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
• I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
• The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....

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