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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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Writing is an adventure.

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