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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
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"I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry."
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"Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production."
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"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
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"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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"As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light.As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun."
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"It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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"But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes."
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"Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres."
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"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Enemy
"Education is not so important as people think."
Education
"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Woman
"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
Lie
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
Experience
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
Change
"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."
Fame
"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."
Lie
"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."
Fate
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