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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional...

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional...

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and...

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come...

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare;...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare;...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far...

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far...

My compositions deserve the medal, not me.

My compositions deserve the medal, not me.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence...

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all...

I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...