"In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn't fill him with the same enthusiasm."

Writing, Growth, Learning, Creativity, Inspirational

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"In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn't fill him with the same enthusiasm."

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"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."

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"Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author."

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"It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."

Communication

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

Expression

"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."

Creativity

"You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes."

Literature

"At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow."

Hope

"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed."

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"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

Dieting

"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

Family

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Genius

"Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins."

Emotion