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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or c...more

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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destruc...more

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enoug...more

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Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next wri...more

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He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to w...more