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- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
- Critics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's those damn critics again.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
- Popularity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
- Great Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
- Nov 07, 2020
The writer works in a lonely way.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
- John
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
- Nov 07, 2020
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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- Nov 07, 2020