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Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.
You can't know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
You have to throw yourself away when you write.
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.
Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times ...
I believe the writer ... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.
