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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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The best writing is rewriting.

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Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

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Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, cu...more

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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was not directly attributable to the love of writing.A ...more

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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his ti...more

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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of th...more

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Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometime...more