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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they...

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they...

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean...

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

The writer's duty is to keep on writing