"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

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"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

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"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

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"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell."

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"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"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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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell."

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."