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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.” ”
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William Faulkner- |
-A Rose for Emily |
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“Theoretically and secretly of course, I was always for the burmese and all against the oppressors, the British. As for the job I was doing I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear. ”
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to raw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
“For a creative writer possession of ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.”
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George Orwell |
Shooting an Elephant |
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“Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.”
“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.”
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Katherine Mansfield |
The Fly |
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“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
“Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.”
“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
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James Thurber |
The secret Life of Walter Mitty |
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“Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it...”
“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”
“Death will be late to bring us aid.”
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William Carlos Williams |
The use of Force |
