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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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