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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

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For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

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You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

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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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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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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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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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