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"I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
Men
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
Love
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
Success
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
Habit
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
People
"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right."
People
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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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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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."
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"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."
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"One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history. It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants."
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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."
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