I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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we do not write as we want but as we can
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his ...
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
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You can never know enough about your characters
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create...
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Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had seemed horrible when it was...
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Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder."But if you were going to ask m...
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.
