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- Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
- An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
- The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be…
- The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier…
- I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling…
- Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
- Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
- Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no…
- The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes…
- My, my. A body does get around.
- ...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
- It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors…
- I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the…
- Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front…
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