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You can never know enough about your characters

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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...more

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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.

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I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the...more

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You cannot write unless you write much.

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To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

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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 ...more

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.