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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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He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

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Don't loaf and invite inspiration light out after it with a club.

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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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In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being b...more