Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“On Editors: "... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes," he shut off her attempted objection. "You would have destroyed my writing and my career. Realism is imperative to my… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without shame I… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
![“Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form." [ Letter to Max E. Feckler , Oct. 26, 1914]” quote by Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/776/jack-london-595_creative-process_merely-because-you-have-got-something-to_1021566.jpg)
