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"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
"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."
"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
"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!"
"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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"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
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