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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

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