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So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
The Hour of the Star
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
Write drunk; edit sober.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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