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I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy o...more

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You can make anything by writing.

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You can make anything by writing

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I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly...more

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In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thin...more

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Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

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I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, un...more