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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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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.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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