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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

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How little we know of what there is to know.

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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

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Never mistake motion for action.

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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

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The only kind of writing is rewriting.

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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

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