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Worry destroys the ability to write.

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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A writer wastes nothing.

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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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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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

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