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Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a ...more

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all ...more

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From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manus...more

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Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably li...more

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Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

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There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.