Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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