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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good...more

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Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it ...more

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You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

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I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bo...more

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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how ...more