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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
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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."
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"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."
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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
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"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."
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"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
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"If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff."
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"Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel."
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"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!"
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
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"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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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
Family
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
Success
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Experience
"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
Influence
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
Age
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
Prohibition
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Blame
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