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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.

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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

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There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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