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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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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 rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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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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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

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