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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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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
Business
"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
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."
People
"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."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."
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"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."
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"One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history. It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants."
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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."
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