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"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
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"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
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"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
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"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."
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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."
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"I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing."
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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."
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"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
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"You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander."
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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."
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"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."
Love
"There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit."
Attitude
"It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."
Politics
"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
Writing
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
Writing
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Motivational
"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."
Education
"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
Humor
"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
Humor
"It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it."
Humor
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