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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. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them, then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."
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"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
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"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."
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"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
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"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
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"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life
"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
Learning
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness
"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
Humor
"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. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them, then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."
Writing
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
Humor
"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
Society
"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."
Writing
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
Wisdom
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Happiness
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