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"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
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"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."
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"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."
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"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."
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"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."
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"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
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"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."
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"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
Experience
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
Love
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
Career
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
Creativity
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
Man
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
Character
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
Discipline
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
Army
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
Dream
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
Life
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