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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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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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Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

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If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.

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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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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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