Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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