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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

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

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

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

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Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

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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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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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