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"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
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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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"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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"You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else."
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"I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry."
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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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"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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"Rust through washing never became white."
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"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."
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"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
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"Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Rules
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity
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