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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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Our words must seem to be inevitable.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

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Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.

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a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

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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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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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