When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one…

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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches...

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches...

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with...

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with...

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized...

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book...

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular,...

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular,...

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed...

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed...

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along...

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along...

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write;...

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write;...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book...

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning...

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning...

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my...

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my...

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of...

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of...

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere....

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere....

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told...

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told...

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe...

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe...