A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. WHITENauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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