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"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."
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"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
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"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
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"If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff."
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"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"
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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
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"Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain."
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"As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words.""Yes, that's right," I agreed."I've noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite?"I nodded assuredly and shared my answer. "BECAUSE."My interviewer looked surprised, as though he'd expected an impressive adjective or some rare verb. "That's your favorite word? Why?"I tried not to smirk. "Because."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel-to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience."
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"The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche. I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage
"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life
"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual
"I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking."
Emotion
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
Knowledge
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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