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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.
