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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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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Enemy
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
Change
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
Experience
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
Friendship
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
Creativity
"Education is not so important as people think."
Education
"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
Creativity
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
Life
"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."
Lie
"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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"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
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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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"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."
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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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"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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"You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else."
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"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
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"Rust through washing never became white."
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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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