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Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. True, the writer may have been alone also...more

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[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long an...more

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You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

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Good writing is always new.

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Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poe...more

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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--t...more