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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
Talent
"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
Literature
"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."
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"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
Life
"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."
Life
"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
People
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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