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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more of a challenge to do it without paper or sidekicks. I enjoy a good challenge.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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