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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read m...more

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A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of j...more

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Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubbl...more