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"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success."
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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."
"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."
"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
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