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"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."
"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."
"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."
"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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