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The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must g...more

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I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and...more

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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway

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Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was i...more