• Art and Culture

  The most essential gift for a good Writeris a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

  4.4 · 56 votes · 150 reads

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  The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different f

  3.3 · 22 votes · 133 reads

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  The Writermust write what he has to say, not speak it.

  4.1 · 50 votes · 163 reads

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  There are events which are so great that if a Writerhas participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  3.7 · 12 votes · 108 reads

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  There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life i

  4.4 · 62 votes · 102 reads

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• Feelings

  There is no friend as loyal as a book

  4.7 · 63 votes · 71 reads

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  There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typeWriterand bleed.

  4.9 · 25 votes · 83 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

  4.7 · 5 votes · 74 reads

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  They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

  4.1 · 59 votes · 170 reads

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• Society

  To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

  5.0 · 32 votes · 97 reads

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  We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  3.2 · 38 votes · 186 reads

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  What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  3.1 · 35 votes · 63 reads

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  When writing a novel a Writershould create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

  4.5 · 44 votes · 153 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

  4.6 · 55 votes · 132 reads

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  Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone

  3.4 · 32 votes · 68 reads

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  You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into hi

  3.6 · 30 votes · 124 reads

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