“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
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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.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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