I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
タグ: your, ideas, believe, me

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You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
タグ: know, speak, people, you
I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned.
タグ: learning, education, creativity
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
タグ: writing
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
タグ: writing
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.
タグ: writing
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