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I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

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The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I...more

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If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You ha...more