Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

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