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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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The multitude is always in the wrong.
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The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it… I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
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The nineteenth century was the era of the novelist. The twentieth is the era of the journalist.
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The only good writer was a dead writer. Then he couldn’t surprise anyone any more, couldn’t hurt anyone any more.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present — henceforth? — the subject to which you are condemned.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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