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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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

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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

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