Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.
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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground...
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If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify...
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You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it ...
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills a...
