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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

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One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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Worry destroys the ability to write.

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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