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“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
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“When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.”
― Letters to Emma Bowlcut
― Letters to Emma Bowlcut
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
(Casual Chance, 1964)”
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
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