"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

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"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."

Work

"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

Home

"They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive."

Time

"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."

Work

"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."

Writing

"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."

Writing

"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."

Fool

"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."

Desire

"Novel writing wrecks homes."

Writing

"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."

Beginning