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"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
Books
"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."
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"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
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"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."
Home
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
Fool
"With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents."
People
"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
Living
"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."
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"Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out."
Writing
"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."
Beginning
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