“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
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“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
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“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
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Darryl’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Darryl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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