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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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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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

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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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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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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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