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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
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