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"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."
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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."
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"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."
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"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."
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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."
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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."
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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."
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"A true piece of writing sets you free."
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"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
Effort
"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."
Family
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
Ambition
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
Imagination
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing
"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."
Character
"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge
"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
Lifestyle
"For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set."
Mind
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