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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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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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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

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

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.

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If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

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