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I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.