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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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Of course I’m a black writer. I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
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One hates an author that”s all author.
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
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One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided whenever possible.
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One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.
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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one”s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one”s pen.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said — the words one didn’t have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one’s dignity or survival.
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One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
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Only the man who finds everything wrong and expects it to get worse is thought to have a clear brain.
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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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