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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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